Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Again, although I'm not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image