“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“As Schell had taught me, "a con starts when there is something you want and you are blocked from attaining it by… — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A simple apology could fix a friendship that shouldn't have ended in the first place. Don't let your pride stop you from… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and… — Jewel Copy Share Image
“All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
