There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full… — William James Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
