“Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
The person that truly loves you are those who doesn't tell you to take off you clothes but the one who says,… — Reymon Iglesia Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every messiah, every church, every temple, every mosque, every… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Obviously there must be a relationship between our ethical theories and our moral behavior. In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our… — Takayuki Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“The concept of good and evil, or morality in general, exists only in the mind of a sane individual, and not the… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and… — Mohammad Rafiq Teli Copy Share Image
“I am choosing the bear every time unless we can explicitly state that it is in a man's true nature to do… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
