Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You irritate me sublimely. What can it be in me? Is it the relic of a moral sense?” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is.… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Morals are difficult things to talk about, but what has happened is that we have invented a moral sense, which is rotting… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, it is the Christian theory that it is only a regard for this Being -- partly a trembling fear and partly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its manifestations. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“What our generation is in danger of forgetting is not only that morals are of necessity a phenomenon of individual conduct but… — F. A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of the word; they have not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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