The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to. — Lecrae Copy Share Image
“... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques... — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities,… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social… — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage… — Michelangelo Signorile Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
