Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The only prescription for morality is this: Remember that every woman could have been your mother, every girl could be your daughter.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off… — Nathaniel Culverwell Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an unthinking habit; it had a moral rationale. If you really believe that failing to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday.… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did.… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
“99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving… AIDS is not the swift sword with… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
I do think that I am making efforts to balance out conservative energy, and the false morality and judgmental attitude that I've… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of homosexual men have more than 100 sexual… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There's no… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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“I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about a lot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
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