We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Their are things that can't buy like Love, morals, respect, trust, common sense, patient,manners, character and integrity. you can have all of… — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
“People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“To be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Don't be shameless, Mr Blair. Don't be immoral, Mr Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“Our morals came from our mothers ... we don't notice them when we were babies ... but they were eventually embedded ...… — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
“In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep… — Trenton Quinn Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.” — King Michael of Romania Copy Share Image
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“Most women feel embarrassed than feeling bad when caught doing something wrong. They are sorry that they are caught, but not sorry… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The… — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Our schools should be places that encourage the open debate of ideas and teach important morals to our young people so that… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin'. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition,… — Eve Forward Villains By Necessity Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Charles is going to be fine," said Annie. "Yep," said Jack with a smile. "He never even knew that it was us… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“From his example in this respect, I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second… — John Green Copy Share Image