“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just cannot buy, like manners, morals and intelligence. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and… — Jeff Bryant Copy Share Image
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
If you want to live in a world without judgmentalism, it also means living in a world without morality and decency. — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we enrich ourselves by invading… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral,… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
“We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band.… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
“Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious,… — Jean Said Makdisi Copy Share Image
“If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
