If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love!… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Isabel had firm views on moral proximity and the obligations it created. WE cannot choose the situations in which we become involved… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
That's what theatre does to you. It teaches you a lot about what moral compass really is. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
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