The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely… — Tariq Ramadan 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
The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image