That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.'… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
Other 'Christian' girls may watch the same movies, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, and have all the same… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Hey, I'm going to Super Dog for a quick bite and to pass along a message from a dead guy to his… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. — David Novak Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go… — Suzy Parker Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money. — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
