It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world…but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an… — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior… — William Damon Copy Share Image
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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