When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more… — William Jones Copy Share Image
“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success.… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“On one hand, Kant thought science led to the conclusion that humans are elements in a vast machine operating by the laws… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“What is it to make a moral judgement, or to argue about an ethical issue, or to live according to ethical standards?… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified as such by a long process… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. All that is necessary for the # triumph… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Morality is violence. An invisible violence at first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“What the new morality resolves itself into is this: You are wrong if you do a thing you do not feel like… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“In morals, as in physics, the stream cannot rise higher than its source. Christianity raises men from earth, for it comes from… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast… — Michael Cisco Copy Share Image
“The myth that morality and fidelity are old-fashioned and trite can imprison more than just one individual as generations are affected by… — Sandra Rogers Copy Share Image
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image