The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“What's the moral of the story? People Above will hurt you. People Above will break you, and devour your heart raw.” — Leah Bobet Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel,… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one. — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires,… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs -… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Christine M. Korsgaard Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“The moral man does something, and when no one responds he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.” — Laotzu Copy Share Image
The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
