Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down. — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold… — Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide… — John Hardon Copy Share Image
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For decades, people right, left, and center complained that the presidency is too powerful. Trump's administration is shrinking the presidency. The president… — Ramesh Ponnuru Copy Share Image
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“God intends each individual to choose his own moral destiny rather than be constrained by the legacy of his parents.” — SparkNotes Copy Share Image
The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Tristan would be the first to admit he had very few moral principles, but there was one he never broke: he never… — Alessandra Hazard Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
