“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ...… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before… — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person,… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The way you challenge Superman is by having things happen very, very quickly in different places and then asking, 'Who does he… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image