All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and… — Travis Culliton Copy Share Image
We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet what would… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Author: A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape, picking up free words and squirreling them away for later use. Subsequently,… — Leopold Throckmorton Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The Queen has well-informed opinions of many of her bishops and likes those who are straightforward and intelligent. Both she and Prince… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Of course, I can lie to you. But I believe that morality built on the truth is the most venerable. I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We live in a decaying society of morality, which bugs me on a daily basis. I consider myself one of the last… — Bruce Buffer Copy Share Image
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are… — Kassandra Dick Copy Share Image
“Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality” — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The way you live your life always reflect in someone's life, it's left for you to determine either to encourage or to… — Vandi Tanko Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
![“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11: I'll talk about the situation in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d5/christopher-hitchens-117_2001_some-readers-may-have-noticed-an-icy-lit_2701880.jpg)
