If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I think that there are certain principles which should guide decision-making for a president. One such principle was that we're all God's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet.… — Colonel Sanders Copy Share Image
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect.… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image