I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to. — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so. — Elizabeth Chambers Copy Share Image
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant;… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . "… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as… — Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history,… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
For Confucians, we are such thoroughly social beings that individual and social interests are not in the end regarded as fundamentally incompatible.… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims. — Maulana Karenga Copy Share Image
The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
