The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak… — William Patten Copy Share Image
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
[On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused… — Mary Edwards Walker Copy Share Image
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
“Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so… — Anne Cassidy Copy Share Image
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image