Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate,… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
“. . .we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance.… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, …… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Service for the Right Reasons: To Save the Whales, or Kill Them and Feed the Children? Morality is simply the attitude we… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
“by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We need a conversion of morals," the elderly man said. "Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe,… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary. And of late I’ve become more… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
