I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
“Nicioadata nu aprob sau dezaprob un lucru, e o atitudine absurda fata de viata. Nu suntem trimisi in lume ca sa ne… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
I think that I care, not so much about religion as I do morality and ethics and what is our responsibility as… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the… — Una McCormack Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and… — Jeff Bryant Copy Share Image
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Whether we know it or not, each of us lives a life governed by an internalized code of conduct. Some call it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you… — Maude (Harold & Maude Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image