A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise… — John Key Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical… — Adam Croasdell Copy Share Image
Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life,… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary... — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways,… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
