I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the… — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
“Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone. — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have a moral consciousness meaning we can discern right from wrong, which makes us accountable; like Christ.” — Moroaswi Tumiso Victor Copy Share Image
You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle… — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code. — Jack Higgins Copy Share Image
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image