Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all. — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years… — Adrian Gostick Copy Share Image
Their are things that can't buy like Love, morals, respect, trust, common sense, patient,manners, character and integrity. you can have all of… — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict,… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
That's one thing about Dave Filoni. He doesn't call me up unless there's something to think about or there's something that we… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches. — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image