Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war;… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good… — Deborah Needleman Copy Share Image
It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets. — William Jones Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. — John Locke Copy Share Image
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image