It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators… — Jean-Louis Murat Copy Share Image
“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims. — Maulana Karenga Copy Share Image
We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral… — David Novak Copy Share Image
There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. — David Grann Copy Share Image
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost… — Jack Beal Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
