To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
