What's the big deal? I have really strong morals, and just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons,… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda… — Carman Copy Share Image
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“BASIC LIFE ATTRIBUTES Four purusharthas or goals of the life be, So very crystal clear in life undisputedly; 1 Artha getting useful… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There's no question that protectionist or sort of moral suasion efforts like this can make a difference on a case-by-case basis. We… — Greg Ip Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt.… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Pain does not have a moral value. Drugs do not have a moral value. Life is good... to be cherished, promoted and… — Dan Brookoff Copy Share Image
My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ;… — Richard Maurice Bucke Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit… — Woodrow Wyatt Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It… — William Mather Lewis Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“For humans, tools point to the necessity of moral inquiry. Because nature makes only ambiguous prescriptions for us, we are compelled to… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
By no means am I as moral as Clark Kent, by no means at all. I made a lot of mistakes and… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
![“I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/hilary-mantel-440_assassinate_i-will-get-into-trouble-i-am-sure-becaus_2606441.jpg)
![“[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.” quote by Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/alistair-cooke-9876_bud_golfers-are-a-special-kind-of-moral-real_1781868.jpg)
