Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of… — E. Digby Baltzell Copy Share Image
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament)… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white,… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy, — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image