we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go… — Väinö Linna Copy Share Image
Happiness can't be created always, it has to be pursued few a times…the nature and meaning of Happiness may differ from individuals… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just… — George Harrar Copy Share Image
According to "matter-ism," matter is all that exists. The only things that are real are physical things in motion governed by natural… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Think about goodness like you think about gravity. Whether or not you believe in gravity, it is still there. Every day you… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Morality is a just a shadow of right action. Right action isn’t the highest degree of morality any more than agapè is… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Leadership is comprised of a can do mentality and raises the bar of ethics and morality! Make it a point to treat… — Bobby Compton Copy Share Image
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what… — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
![“Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä]” quote by Väinö Linna](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ba7/v-in-linna-51519_ethics_liberty-medals-are-they-trying-to-bribe_1110980.jpg)
![“If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.” quote by Dennis Prager](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/95d/dennis-prager-631_believe_if-they-liberals-didn-t-believe-we-were_111894.jpg)
![“[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.” quote by Jonathan Haidt](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/488/jonathan-haidt-1823_ability_w-hen-a-group-of-people-make-something-s_2426022.jpg)
