The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. — Francis Schaeffer 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
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“The moral man does something, and when no one responds he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.” — Laotzu Copy Share Image
Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the… — Ramesh Ponnuru Copy Share Image
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“There is no “universal moral urge” and not all ethical systems agree. Polygamy, human sacrifice, infanticide, cannibalism (Eucharist), wife beating, self-mutilation, foot… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one. — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel,… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
