Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines… — Lucas Bale Copy Share Image
“Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything?… — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image
There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must… — Candy Darling Copy Share Image
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
America treasures the relationship we have with our many Muslim friends, and we respect the vibrant faith of Islam which inspires countless… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves?… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of… — George Dennison Copy Share Image
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
“Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing,… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else -… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt,… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“I have been followed by enough police robots to know by now how indestructible they are. You can blow them up or… — Harry Harrison Copy Share Image
If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
“Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
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