A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I'm cheering for America as always. Our interest ought to come first and to the extent that making temporary alliances with other… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“Each of us would like the ability to do what we want to do, when we want to do it, without incurring… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“Morals are difficult things to talk about, but what has happened is that we have invented a moral sense, which is rotting… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
That's what theatre does to you. It teaches you a lot about what moral compass really is. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“One should take good care never to treat one’s own moral code as something universally valid” — Stephan Lebert Copy Share Image
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
