“Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant,… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent. — John Nolte Copy Share Image
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".” — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both,… — Chade-Meng Tan Copy Share Image
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality. — African Spir Copy Share Image
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