I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“A ética da moral é mantê-la em segredo. A liberdade é um segredo.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold Copy Share Image
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Obi-Wan understands that the best thing he can do is contribute something positive to the world around him and then to leave.… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image