So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well? — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns! — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under… — Byron White Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as… — Achille Mbembe Copy Share Image
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
“There is a moral sturdiness to (hardware store owner) Charley that isn't advertised or boasted about, but is obvious to all who… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first...Why can't we… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
“For each of us, she thought, there is out completeness in another. Whether we find it, or it finds us, or it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every… — Edmund Yates Copy Share Image
I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a God is like saying you are an economist because you play Monopoly. — Robert W. Cox Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
