When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
“There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world.… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Like the legends of Kon-Tiki Viracocha [...], the South American civilizing hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages [...],… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“It’s our work, our job, the most important gig of all: to make a place that belongs to us, a structure composed… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Mankind made machines in his own likeness, and used them for his delight and service. The machines had no soul or they… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“In Hwang’s view, the Pyongyang leadership “used the feudalistic idea of filial piety to justify absolutism of the Great Leader. Filial piety… — Bradley K. Martin Copy Share Image
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“You broke your own moral code. I figured if someone like you would fight for me, I might actually be worth something.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
![“[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68b/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_accusation_i-t-would-be-a-piece-of-ingenuousness-to_2609384.jpg)
![“We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.” quote by Benjamin Netanyahu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/99f/benjamin-netanyahu-2269_belief_we-israel-people-always-blame-moses-that_592836.jpg)
![“Like the legends of Kon-Tiki Viracocha [...], the South American civilizing hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages [...], who was said to have come to the Andes during a terrifying period, thousands of years in the past, "when the earth had been inundated by a…” quote by Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae2/graham-hancock-10752_apkallu_like-the-legends-of-kon-tiki-viracocha-t_2333351.jpg)
