The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage,… — George Will Copy Share Image
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job. — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image