“Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
The person that truly loves you are those who doesn't tell you to take off you clothes but the one who says,… — Reymon Iglesia Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
“When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and… — Mohammad Rafiq Teli Copy Share Image
“I am choosing the bear every time unless we can explicitly state that it is in a man's true nature to do… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“The concept of good and evil, or morality in general, exists only in the mind of a sane individual, and not the… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
![“Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.” quote by Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/05b/samuel-johnson-50_against-religion_sir-he-bolingbroke-was-a-scoundrel-and-a_2209441.png)
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