You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Talking about morality can be offensive. Morality is a politically incorrect subject. Many people are genuinely offended if someone speaks of morality… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We have an idea of what is right or wrong. And we can debate moral issues as ideas. But moral *standards* are… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
“Simple life Ethos If you must judge. Let your moral beacon guide you to a decision you can live with, If you… — Husam Wafaei Copy Share Image
Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and… — Jeffrey Bryant Copy Share Image
“Take heed that if you deceive, lie, intrigue, cheat, you thereby demean yourself. belittle yourself, confess your own weakness beforehand, play the… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The morality that goes with this understanding is, above all, the frank recognition of your dependence upon enemies, underlings, out-groups, and, indeed,… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perhaps because of rising standards of living,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For me, the moral dimension of life is that you are committed, to doing everything that you do, with a sense of… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years.… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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