In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned,… — David Novak Copy Share Image
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Is it moral that, when millions of seniors are unable to afford the medicine they need, the top one-tenth of 1 percent… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn,… — Deborah Pryce Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image