How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Her (Jane Austen) moral message is infused with ideological insistence on the merits of good conduct, good manners, sound reason, and marriage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They are our brothers, these freedom fighters… They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs… — Larry Siedentop Copy Share Image
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love… — African Spir 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
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
