Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image