The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species.… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image