Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do. — Charlie Crist Copy Share Image
We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness… — Phil Klay 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
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Conservatism, I believe, happens to be what happens when people behave according to a certain moral code, a certain sense of right… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life,… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation,… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The American people are not ready for the idea that everyone has at least a moral right to good, timely health care.… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all… — George Gillespie Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price. — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win? — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
