The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The way you challenge Superman is by having things happen very, very quickly in different places and then asking, 'Who does he… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Maybe the pictures are all black and white because things were black and white then, Nick." I knew exactly what she meant.… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute… — William James Copy Share Image
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his… — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among… — John Denham Copy Share Image
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