In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant,… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to… — Horace Fletcher Copy Share Image
I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without… — Roger Vadim Copy Share Image
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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