Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those… — George Carey Copy Share Image
Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer. — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical… — Adam Croasdell Copy Share Image
“They make you settle for second best." That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
I would you say 25-50 percent is the likelihood that my cause of death will be suicide. Not because I am depressive… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what… — African Spir Copy Share Image
If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
