There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an… — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure… — Lex Allen Copy Share Image
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking… — Fabrice Hadjadj Copy Share Image
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Another pitfall: Utilitarianism is interested only in making the majority of people happy. It is concerned with the happiness of the many,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can.… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation—by the Golden Dawn, or by… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The world has far too much morality. If you added up all the homicides committed in pursuit of self-help justice, the casualties… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
