In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“You can’t understand my work if you lack the moral deficiency to kill indiscriminately.” — Martyn V. Halm Copy Share Image
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Your Grace, I have certain moral objections to ending the world as our race knows it”?” — Rory Ni Coileain Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
My rebellion was telling my dad, "No, you're wrong, you don't know what's best for me. I'm not gonna waste my time… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment. — David Hume Copy Share Image
That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“How do you… I don’t know… always see things in the right light? Why is your moral compass so much better than… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
