There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the… — William Holmes McGuffey Copy Share Image
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
“Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image