Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
“What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace… — Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
If I'm on my own, I'll speak to 'Monkey' to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don't do it… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is… — Jose Celso Barbosa Copy Share Image
“We have an idea of what is right or wrong. And we can debate moral issues as ideas. But moral *standards* are… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense… — Liz Curtis Higgs Copy Share Image
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
