If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
“There is a moral sturdiness to (hardware store owner) Charley that isn't advertised or boasted about, but is obvious to all who… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Fortunately, America remains a robust democracy, where most individuals are not afraid to speak out. What we have done in Iraq has,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this,… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on… — George Combe Copy Share Image
With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The value we're all raised with, that women don't have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality.… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect.… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
![“The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral…” quote by Albert J. Nock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91a/albert-j-nock-9816_bigs_the-worst-of-this-ever-growing-cancer-of_1823991.jpg)
