If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“God intends each individual to choose his own moral destiny rather than be constrained by the legacy of his parents.” — SparkNotes Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold… — Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran Copy Share Image
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Tristan would be the first to admit he had very few moral principles, but there was one he never broke: he never… — Alessandra Hazard Copy Share Image
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux 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
