Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, — Yitzhak Shamir Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it. — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought” — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The primary thing that I enjoy about Luke Cage is that he has a morality about him but it's conflicted. He's never… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Marxists make it an objective to control education, that's how they control minds, countries, populations. We conservatives don't like to control anybody,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The universality of reason is a momentous realization, because it defines a place for morality. If I appeal to you do do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold Copy Share Image
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Two wrongs' create an additional problem. 'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse. 'Two rights' create a solution.” — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image