I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only… — Allen W. Wood 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
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics.… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life… — Wesley J. Smith Copy Share Image
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. — Terry Hands Copy Share Image
I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored. — Anne O'Hare McCormick Copy Share Image
It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b)… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
