If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“We’ve been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don’t. There’s no such thing as the… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
“Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought” — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs --… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
May God have mercy on my soul , for I am a born sinner , For I fall short to temptation. Crave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
