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
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
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
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
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
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
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The cool thing about Watchmen is it has this really complicated question that it asks, which is: who polices the police or… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Thus, the enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“ Father, we are uniquely capable of morality. We must be moral, because we can be moral. He stood very still as… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys,… — Barry Eisler 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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
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