I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that… — Julius Adams Stratton Copy Share Image
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and… — Albert Martin Copy Share Image
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
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