It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
“The rule: when energy, 'negative' as it may be, moves without resistance, it easily sublimates and becomes raw energy of power and… — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,--"But… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Relativists can't accuse others of wrongdoing. I Say Relativism makes it impossible to criticize the behavior of others, because relativism ultimately denies… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It would take expert navigators, like economists, to steer the world through the purgatory of capitalism and arrive at a future not… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“How do you think that the great fortunes and colonies have been made? By theft, war, and conquest.” “Then morality does not… — David King Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
“ I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
There is not a single person in the media today that could wear Dr. Benjamin Carson's uniform, whatever uniform he puts on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Of course we would all like to "believe" in something, like to assuage our private guilts in public causes, like to lose… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Morality aside, there are other factors deterring 'strategic defaults,' whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
“If science could make a person understand the true significance of morality in human existence, - and more importantly, if science could… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as… — Llewelyn Powys Copy Share Image
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral,… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Many a present-day Alcibiades, who laves all the week in the muddy waters of life, comes on Sundays to cleanse himself in… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
