“When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?'… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values… — Rosika Schwimmer Copy Share Image
We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it… — John Galt Copy Share Image
“the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is.… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us… — Sholem Asch Copy Share Image
The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image