For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But… — Steve McNair Copy Share Image
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines.… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever. — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
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