Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St.… — James McBride Copy Share Image
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive. — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral… — V. Vale Copy Share Image
I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh 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
There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame. — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs. — Des MacHale Copy Share Image
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Helping Ukraine is not only a moral imperative but also in America's strategic and financial interests. — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image