A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority.… — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
A person is praiseworthy for a right action to the extent that her action manifests, and is rationalized by, good will, that… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President… — John Olver Copy Share Image
Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
