Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days… Such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important. — Siobhan Fallon Hogan Copy Share Image
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I've seen too many celebrities fall from their morals, and I wanna come up under that and be THAT girl that doesn't… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
