It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain 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
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman 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
When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral… — Ben Bernanke 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
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
“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
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage. — Leon L. Van Autreve 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
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. — Marlon Brando 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
“Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan 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
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping” — Dean Merrill 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
