“Ha a nők elmésnek, tehetségesnek találják, a férfiak el fogják hinni, hogy az, hacsak maga ki nem ábrándítja őket. Akkor aztán mindent… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it.… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“His heart went out to them. There was one quality which they had that he did not remember to have noticed in… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Obviously there must be a relationship between our ethical theories and our moral behavior. In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our… — Takayuki Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every messiah, every church, every temple, every mosque, every… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
America treasures the relationship we have with our many Muslim friends, and we respect the vibrant faith of Islam which inspires countless… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves?… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“The existence of the corporation, as we have it with us today, was never dreamed of by the fathers . . .The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects of this kind among… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow;… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in… — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image