Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut Copy Share Image
When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues. — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in… — Don Cupitt 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
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the… — I. A. R. Wylie Copy Share Image
“I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If you can't be a pencil to write someone's happiness, then try to be a nice eraser to remove their sadness.. — Udigwe Vinsnt Copy Share Image
Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that… — Jonathan Freedland Copy Share Image
I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image