Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. — Vittorio De Sica Copy Share Image
“Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving 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
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image