Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand… — Joseph Crowley Copy Share Image
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony… — William James Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be… — Phil Libin Copy Share Image
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
I think there's been a tendency to place me in what has been characterised as the 'moral centre' of the film. In… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live;… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person,… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image