When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic… — John Williams Copy Share Image
In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of… — Ria Banerjee Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I've listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice.… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Everyone has a right to live in his own way. But in the process, should not compromise moral and social value. A… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
“[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is the temptation of… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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