Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Moyers: Then what does love have to do with morality? Campbell: Violates it…Insofar as love expresses itself, it is not expressing itself… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics… — David Swing Copy Share Image
“The debauched reign of Tiberius now looks almost irreproachable, the riotous city of ancient Babylon seemingly incorruptible, and the old harems of… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error.… — Forrest J. Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others. — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Copy Share Image
Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. -The Duchess — Alice In Wonderland Copy Share Image
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality. — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
“It takes a Bigger Courage to take on Danger, where None can be Sighted.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really… — Jonathan King Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If it requires you to go against what you stand for or believe in, turn it down and walk away with your… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image