Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a… — C. Wright Mills 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 must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral… — Paula Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral… — Timothy J. Bartik Copy Share Image
Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It… — William Mather Lewis Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit… — Woodrow Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By no means am I as moral as Clark Kent, by no means at all. I made a lot of mistakes and… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
“For humans, tools point to the necessity of moral inquiry. Because nature makes only ambiguous prescriptions for us, we are compelled to… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness,… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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