We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends. — Marian Hooper Adams Copy Share Image
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
In my path, three things are really important. One is associating with people who inspire us with their positive influence. The company… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species.… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute… — William James Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to… — Simon Baron-Cohen 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
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the… — Thurgood Marshall 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
Structurally I don't see a fundamental difference between what we may reasonably expect of police and doctors - though obviously the fact… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
