Authority Quote by A.J. Ayer Download Open image “No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.” — A.J. Ayer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Character Divine Ethics Ifs Morality Morality and ethics
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. — A.J. Ayer 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 it the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“What is not so generally recognized is that there can be no way of proving that the existence of a god, such as the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ...… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
