“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view,… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can.… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ethics is [...] the philosophic branch of inquiry which talks about right and wrong, which talks about our moral obligations, which inquires… — Michael Surge Copy Share Image
It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power;… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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