History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive. — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions,… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the… — Josh Charles Copy Share Image
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
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