All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
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