Government and the press must stop making tax avoidance about morality; it assumes everyone has the same morals. It's a civic/social responsibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Focusing on the public school system, former Secretary of Education, William Bennett explains the moral crisis in that institution by contrasting the… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Morality binds and blinds. This is not just something that happens to people on the other side. We all get sucked into… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“When we do a moral act to offset an immoral one, we are engaged in “moral cleansing.” When we do nothing, or… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is.… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it… — John Galt Copy Share Image
For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong.… — Peter P. Sellers Copy Share Image
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. You dislike me. I am quite aware of that.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But as I tell my ethics students in the morality section, what we feel is one thing. What we do about what… — Deana Farrady Copy Share Image
The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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