For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength. — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.' — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
“The Realistic Vision recognizes the need for strict moral education through parents, family, friends, and community because people have a dual nature… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
I didn't really care about money. I really wanted to follow my bliss. I really wanted to do the things that would… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, "Does this show respect… — Pam Farrel Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm? — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“En muchos casos, llamarle a uno "bueno" no indica más que docilidad, tendencia a no llevar la contraria y a no causar… — Fernando Savater Copy Share Image
