In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power… — David Korten Copy Share Image
It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs -… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,'… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires,… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
