One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?” — M. COCHET M Copy Share Image
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Of course, I can lie to you. But I believe that morality built on the truth is the most venerable. I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We live in a decaying society of morality, which bugs me on a daily basis. I consider myself one of the last… — Bruce Buffer Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
“All humans have their own morality, which is fluid between people, and, on a societal level, across space and time. That’s why… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image