If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being… — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Copy Share Image
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum. — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. — James Sharp 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
I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core. — Neal McDonough Copy Share Image
