Character Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“History is the error we are forever correcting.” —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno”

— Paul A. Offit

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

— Ayn Rand

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but were discreetly…

— Saul D. Alinsky

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

— H. L. Mencken

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as…

— David Plotz

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

— George W. Bush

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end…

— Friedrich Nietzsche