I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than… — Eve Forward Copy Share Image
“I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order.… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Society will always do better where citizens have a belief in justice, honour and private morality. Where individuals are reduced to the… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again… — William Coulson Copy Share Image
“Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was… — Alexander Mccall smith Copy Share Image
Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do… — Laozi Copy Share Image
How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“THE WEIGHT OF ONE FEATHER Given. Many fear Death Because they already Feel ridden with sin, But no man On this earth… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I do not set myself up as a moral exemplar, and would be swiftly knocked down if I did, but if I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
