The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is.… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any… — Paul Yingling Copy Share Image
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We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b)… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full… — William James Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled… — George Will Copy Share Image
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
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A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
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