What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By exposing the fallacy of the UK’s extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the… — Babar Ahmad Copy Share Image
Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
(A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one,… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
