Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without… — Roger Vadim Copy Share Image
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society,… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. — Jack Wagner Copy Share Image
