“The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I think we're a little bit protective in that way. You're always trying to balance between what's spreading the word about the… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a… — Gustav Nossal Copy Share Image
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
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