At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces. — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families,… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the… — Yu Dan Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with.… — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The gamers are smart. They see right through the moral scale. Actually, with Dragon Age, I really liked the system the team… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
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