It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world — Yosef Abramowitz Copy Share Image
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history,… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. — James Sharp Copy Share Image
I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue. — Al Gore Copy Share Image