We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the… — I. A. R. Wylie Copy Share Image
It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Characters in Hollywood movies encounter a lot of car chases. Characters in novels rarely wash their hands or do their laundry. And… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn,… — Deborah Pryce Copy Share Image
The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned… — Phil Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential ... the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“... it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system… — Morris Hite Copy Share Image
Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed… — George Soros Copy Share Image
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
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