Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white,… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of… — E. Digby Baltzell Copy Share Image
Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found. — Tim McIlrath Copy Share Image
I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
