-The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When I grew up, which was really in the 30s and the 40s, the movies were a moral guideline for me. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm,… — Myrna Blyth Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power,… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have stagnant wages in America. We have stagnant, even declining net worth in this country. That's part of something that's much… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you… — Confucius Copy Share Image
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