Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...]… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow. — African Spir Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality. — Katherine Webb Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
![“Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.” quote by Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fc8/charles-krauthammer-1232_clarity_some-geopolitical-conflicts-are-morally_1263872.jpg)
![“That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.” quote by George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c86/george-mason-8435_american-revolution_that-slow-poison-slavery-is-daily-contam_1271467.jpg)
![“[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he…” quote by Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f68/dale-jamieson-4075_appeals_this-approach-displays-the-characteristi_1272080.jpg)
![“To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of…” quote by James C. Dobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ae/james-c-dobson-23459_alien_to-have-been-possessed-by-something-so-a_1273826.jpg)
![“[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.” quote by David Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80a/david-hare-9074_admire_david-mamet-s-the-writer-i-admire-most-b_1274393.jpg)
![“From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e76/garry-kasparov-910_american-president_from-ukraine-to-syria-he-vladimir-putin_1278990.jpg)
