Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread,… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's… — Tommy Bond Copy Share Image
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept,… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
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