Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have positional authority, and that is very hopeful. But the reality of it is the nation responds to moral authority,… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
“Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country [...] consequently there is no moral justice.” — Edward Anderson Copy Share Image
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that,… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national… — Peter King Copy Share Image
“Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
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