In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
“And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under… — Byron White Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops… — Lawrence Korb Copy Share Image
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. — Maurice Barres Copy Share Image