Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue.… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to… — Alicia Witt Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes.… — Leonor Varela Copy Share Image
Religion and race belong together. German man can only assimilate religious faith and religious thought with a German mind and in a… — Hans Schemm Copy Share Image
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with.… — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
I agree with those who argue that it is possible to distil from the religions of the world their common values and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
![“Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate…” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/albert-einstein-33_authority_selection-of-un-delegates-by-governments_1484649.jpg)
![“For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may…” quote by Pope Paul VI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69e/pope-paul-vi-7633_blessed_for-he-is-in-the-midst-of-us-day-and-nig_2270000.jpg)
![“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]” quote by Dante Alighieri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/dante-alighieri-590_crisis_the-hottest-places-in-hell-are-reserved_2915040.jpg)
![“Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of…” quote by R. H. Tawney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/r-h-tawney-25650_blessing_convinced-that-character-is-all-and-circ_2586305.jpg)
