A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed… — George Soros Copy Share Image
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food -… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The only religion that can satisfy today's ideal is a religion that will give consecration to life, and direction to human endeavor,… — Sterling M. McMurrin Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither.… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Christians and Jews go after those who have access to raw materials but who prevent access to them. Oil is the best… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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