All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Never compromise your morals for anyone or anything or you'll surely regret it. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.” — Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there’s just what you can do, and what you can’t. Well, I could. And I… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ethics define what people ought to do; morals describe what people actually do. The difference between them is between the normal and… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“More than Iran's enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption... a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.” — Brian Awehali Copy Share Image
“But human flesh is weak. And the human spirit is weak as well — before curiosity, before desire, before doubt.” — Ruslana Pidsadiuk Copy Share Image
“Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.” — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
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