“If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I don’t hate god to someone… — Lindsey Brown Copy Share Image
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum,… — Anas Copy Share Image
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“His heart went out to them. There was one quality which they had that he did not remember to have noticed in… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither.… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that… — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to… — Mike Hernacki Copy Share Image
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Paul Chehade is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God's… — Paul Chehade Copy Share Image
The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment,… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably… — Spencer Reid Copy Share Image
Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
