There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel.… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle 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
If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the… — Ramesh Ponnuru Copy Share Image
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
“If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks,… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible… — John Burns Copy Share Image
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker 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
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