Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that… The real job of every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority.… — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions,… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families,… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing… — William G. Bainbridge Copy Share Image
We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
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The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
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want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.png)
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