Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further. — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a… — African Spir Copy Share Image
...I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany… — David Clennon Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person,… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger 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
It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; I found a way to make it an asset. I began to sound… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all. — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image