“The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything… — Solomon Northrup Copy Share Image
Inculcate moral value. Make sincerity and integrity your way of life. Integrity is the ability to accept impartial action and act in… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue… — Robert Kocharian Copy Share Image
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I'm beginning to wonder," said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. "Who do I serve? Why am I here?"… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And… — William James Copy Share Image
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices,… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Proctor is a moralist who says, “I’ve always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you continue to successfully make each day better than the last, choosing to make great decisions that are not only ambitious,… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us," she said, "at least, it shows them as no… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid,… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
