“Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for… — William James Copy Share Image
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The only morality in a cruel world is 'Chance'. Unbiased, unprejudiced and fair... — Anonymous 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
Life is not about the fairy-tale endings, or the prince that sweeps you away. It's about what you learn, and how you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because that’s life, you know? Good and bad. You can’t have one without the other. The bad brings out the good in… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures,… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity,… — George Leef Copy Share Image
“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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![“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by Su Shih and other scholars influenced by Buddhism, which maintains that man is neither good-natured nor bad-natured. According to this opinion man is not moral…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/83c/kaiten-nukariya-793_buddhism_4-man-is-neither-good-natured-nor-bad-na_100937.jpg)
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