The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor. — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone… — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic. — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among… — John Denham Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys,… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
