Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental,… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral… — William James Copy Share Image
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain,… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Love and respect a woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will,… — Carl Becker Copy Share Image
And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“...wrong to think the less of another for what he or she was. There was no moral obligation to like others, nor… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
