“You who won’t allow one per cent of impurity into an alloy of metal,” the unforgotten voice was saying to him, “what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social… — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2)… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce.… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Morality, in and of itself, is a damning thing. Self-righteousness is a damning thing. You'd be better off to be immoral and… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was… — Scott Derrickson 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
“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“Whatever our way out of this mess, one thing is certain. This degree of inequality, this withdrawal of opportunity, this cold denial… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“He rrraped herrr,” the beast within him shrieked from deep in his gut, shaking everything but my resolve. Pietr stepped back, putting… — Shannon Delany Copy Share Image
And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“I steal things.” “You do what?” She wanted to smile at the incredulous tone. “Is stealing worse than killing? I thought it… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“What makes Marlowe’s defiance and even D’Amville’s anticlerical contempt compelling is their moral edge. And in their very different ways, Acosta, Coornhert,… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I fully respect people whose personal religious or moral code has God giving, and taking, life. But there are moral and responsible… — Margo MacDonald Copy Share Image
Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
“When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our… — David G. McAfee 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
Bottom line is that I have had a totally criminal moral code and operated with a totally criminal mind attitude that I… — Mike Rinder Copy Share Image
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Conservatism, I believe, happens to be what happens when people behave according to a certain moral code, a certain sense of right… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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