What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things… — Henry Latham Doherty Copy Share Image
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time,… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as… — Rod Rosenbladt Copy Share Image
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
As I came to the lime light, the media asked me many questions. A lot many moral policing... 'Wear this, wear that,… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President… — John Olver Copy Share Image
I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and… — Elena Mukhina Copy Share Image
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