Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
We live in a nation where governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“Lenin refused to recognise moral norms established by slave-owners for their slaves and never observed by the slave-owners themselves; he called upon… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that… — J Hus Copy Share Image
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Morality is inseparable from freedom. Only free conduct is moral conduct. By negating freedom, and thus the possibility of choice, a dictatorship… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
“One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute,… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a… — Marijane Meaker Copy Share Image
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
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