People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences, — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
I fully respect people whose personal religious or moral code has God giving, and taking, life. But there are moral and responsible… — Margo MacDonald Copy Share Image
As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds,… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary... — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings. — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image