It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality. — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
For us, to be ignored by God is a harsher punishment than to be a victim of His anger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In every human being, there is potential for good just as much as there is potential for evil. The choice is yours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices,… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
“Communism is a utopian view of history, because the impossible is necessary for its realization. In essence, this requires a high level… — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I still had a lot of practical medicine to learn, but would knowledge alone be enough, with life and death hanging in… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise… — George Washington Copy Share Image