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
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
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. "The Baglioni are true believers," he said. "They believe in… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
I just want people to hold themselves to account about what they think more, because I strongly believe that the way to… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let… — 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
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
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of… — 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
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
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 idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
