Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement. — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise. — Sher Valenzuela Copy Share Image
