Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage. — Leon L. Van Autreve Copy Share Image
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
