Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple… — Michael Fullan Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values .… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
