Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women. — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple… — J. Lawton Collins Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith,… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as… — Sheldon Jackson Copy Share Image
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
