It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
