We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I believe that the moral of this natural occurrence, is that we are all born to find and fix our own shortcomings;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place.… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up… — William Montgomery Watt Copy Share Image
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
My own sense as an American is that we have begun to experience the disadvantages of framing virtually all moral issues in… — David Wong Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
