“Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for… — William James Copy Share Image
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“. . .we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
“I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“My unlucky star had destined me to be born when there was much talk about morality and, at the same time, more… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The Three Idiots: Lucifer, JC, and Naskar (Neuroskit, Sonnet 2568-2569) The other day Lucifer called, I got frustrated, and yelled, "would you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
