Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most… — Al Barry Copy Share Image
God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future.… — Prince Gomolvilas Copy Share Image
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things. — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy, — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those… — George Carey Copy Share Image
