The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I think that Google has definitely influenced my moral values and the ethics. I think when Larry Page started the company, they… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,… — Manis Friedman Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to have a better and happy life, know your own ethics, build a sense of right and wrong for… — Kishor Copy Share Image
Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities,… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple… — Michael Fullan Copy Share Image
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Conservatism, I believe, happens to be what happens when people behave according to a certain moral code, a certain sense of right… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not… — Francis William Newman Copy Share Image
