We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people — John Adams Copy Share Image
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims. — Maulana Karenga Copy Share Image
A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage. — Leon L. Van Autreve Copy Share Image
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image