Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching… — Edward Mayhew Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions,” he wrote a Brooklyn minister. “Our inner balance and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The Biblical writers not only had no knowledge of these things, but they had a perverted concept of life and the universe.… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“This is the first law of relativism: When right or wrong are a matter of personal choice, we surrender the privilege of… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear… — John Gray Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“So how do you find out what God thinks? The Christian says, you look in the Bible. And the Bible tells us… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
