Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch TV instead… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The commitment to morality, or non-harming, is a source of tremendous strength, because it helps free the mind from the remorse of… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don’t harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures… — Shelly Kagan Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can… — Richard Grossinger Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“One of my friends who leads meditation retreats honors the Asian habit, as I do, of bowing to the image of the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“But this part of me...' Mor wiped at her tears with her free hand. 'It didn't matter as much, when my family… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Graham functioned as a megaphone for conservative biblical ideas that dovetailed with conservative politics, including family, sexual morality, and adherence to laws.… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the problem. But whether they've heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff.… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“[ From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still,… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that all moralities adequately serving the function of fostering social cooperation must contain a norm of reciprocity - a norm… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“But . . . but was evil an entity at all? What caused evil? Imperfection in activity . . . imperfection of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image