“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice. — Chicken John Copy Share Image
“If your conscience objects, surely God also objects since He is even greater.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I sensed the schools were hiding something, drugging us with false morality so that we would not see, so that we did… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“In contemplation lies the seed of peace – in peace lies the seed of morality - in morality lies the seed of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.” — Abu arri Copy Share Image
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Sometimes... The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found. — Tim McIlrath Copy Share Image
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction. — John Cory Copy Share Image
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
