No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our… — John Lynch Copy Share Image
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the… — James P Comer Copy Share Image
If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions… — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Some people are so moral they feel like they have no need for Jesus. True worshippers know they are in deep need… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church, though I think it's important that people grow up with moral values, I just always disagreed with their tactics,… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not… — David Foster Copy Share Image
There has been sort of, if you will, a moral interventionism on the part of the United States trying to reshape countries… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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