The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The gamers are smart. They see right through the moral scale. Actually, with Dragon Age, I really liked the system the team… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead… — David Hayden Copy Share Image
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed… — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong -… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
