The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you... — Carol Alt Copy Share Image
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks… — David Cortright Copy Share Image
The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I still have that drawing. Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than… — Sally Jewell Copy Share Image
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
