If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged!… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The value we're all raised with, that women don't have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality.… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on… — George Combe Copy Share Image
With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
the action we take in the name of love,those are moral or immoral.and normally it wouldn't matter — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
