He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Our morality changes everything that holds truth - while the hate you paint with just recolours the lines of history.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
The fundamental answer to morality is that no one is right. If everyone was good then no one would be evil. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
To make our moral purpose efficient and useful, our minds must be as wide-awake and penetrating as possible. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.” — Kai Nielsen Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and… — William James Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“It was Daisuke's conviction that all morality traced its origins to social realities. He believed there could be no greater confusion of… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“One would like to be loved, recognized, for what one is, and by everyone. But that is an adolescent desire. Sooner or… — Robert Zaretsky Copy Share Image
“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And… — D. R. Karthikeyan Copy Share Image
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image