More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament)… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able… — Dalai Lama 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
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion,… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm,… — Myrna Blyth Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth. — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I… — Lawrence Auster Copy Share Image
The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football. — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image