Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time… — George Will Copy Share Image
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect.… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“When it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass. Why? When… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
We need a regime change in this country… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as… — Emmeline B. Wells Copy Share Image
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“Few people can truly excel at occupations about which they entertain moral reservations.” — Christy Wright Copy Share Image
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image