Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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