Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans are the only ones who are the custodians of other people's morals. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Religion and morality do not go hand in hand. In fact, they are at the opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum.” — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“People sometimes say that it is “old-fashioned” to define morality based on the Bible, but nothing is more “old- fashioned” than wanting… — Dannah K. Gresh Copy Share Image
“Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately,… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. — Maurice Barres Copy Share Image
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“...all a guy can do is die once. The big difference is whether he dies clean - or dirty... ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
