Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power,… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual. — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise. — Sher Valenzuela Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
“Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really." Here we go again… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image