Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
“When we understand what is right and what is wrong, we are in a position to exercise our freedom in making choices.… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Copy Share Image
The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn't take Scouting for granted.… — Wallace G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a… — George Will Copy Share Image
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Here's an experiment: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old.… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image