“You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Bad judges, lousy cops, greedy lawyers, lazy prosecutors, mediocre teachers, and incompetent bureaucrats are inevitable. When they happen, they should be weeded… — Dennis McDougal Copy Share Image
“To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“These senators and representatives call themselves “leaders.” One of the primary principles of leadership is that a leader never asks or orders… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
“Operational inquiry has established that Danylo Shablia assisted in the espionage activities of his son, Peter Shablia, helping him organize an anti-Soviet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Ever since I became an American, people have told me that America is about leaving your past behind. I’ve never understood that.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“But sympathy in novels need not be simply a matter of the reader’s direct identification with a fictional character. It can also… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“In a famous passage, Mill explained Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, in order… — Mary Pickering Copy Share Image
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage. — Leon L. Van Autreve Copy Share Image
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility. — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
“No doubt a majority of the duels fought have been for want of moral courage on the part of those engaged to… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is… — Jose Celso Barbosa Copy Share Image
We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“I believe we have a deficit of moral courage in the United States Congress. We have many learned individuals who know what… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
“To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By Copy Share Image
A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific… — Tom Bensing Copy Share Image
