Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral… — Timothy J. Bartik Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people… — Sally Stanford Copy Share Image
Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what theatre does to you. It teaches you a lot about what moral compass really is. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
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