The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send… — Kevin Sorbo Copy Share Image
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Moral codes are like the ocean. Some people live by them, while others, such as myself, would rather live by a lake.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important… — Ser'Darius Blain Copy Share Image
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead… — Joe Cornish Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by." — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement. — Letitia James Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better. — Stephanie S. Tolan Copy Share Image
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image