Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt.… — Charles Haddon Copy Share Image
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents,… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings,… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the… — Colonel Tom Parker Copy Share Image
When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
