Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I believe there are universal moral values - some of which are very well served by a cosmopolitan attitude. You can think… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life,… — Hubert Humphrey Copy Share Image
The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand… — Joseph Crowley Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony… — William James Copy Share Image
Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by… — J. Spencer Kinard Copy Share Image
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL,… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
