There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the… — Yu Dan Copy Share Image
The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of… — George Dennison Copy Share Image
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of so much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity. — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
