This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.” — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under… — Byron White Copy Share Image
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.'… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And… — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
Do what you love, live for what you believe, and die protecting it. Never accept anything less than the very best Success… — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image