“Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of… — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Copy Share Image
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain,… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is!… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
“When a society removes moral responsibility by belief that the acquisition of knowledge comes from an unknown and mysterious venue, it loses… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
“The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral… — David Klinghoffer Copy Share Image
The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to… — Frederick Victor Grey Wymark Copy Share Image
“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“[Quatelet’s first claim to catch attention] was that since (as he believed he had shown) there is a ‘law’ governing the amount… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Why was it sensible for Americans to transubstantiate a convention into the virtual embodiment of the People? After all, as with an… — Akhil Reed Amar Copy Share Image
“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I… — John Champlin Gardner Jr Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. "Reasonable people," he said, think that "with a little reason,… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the… — Bodo Balsys Copy Share Image
If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
![“[Quatelet’s first claim to catch attention] was that since (as he believed he had shown) there is a ‘law’ governing the amount of crime in a society, moral responsibility for crime must lie with the society and not with the individual criminal. ‘It is society that prepares the crime and … the…” quote by Louis Menand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/louis-menand-8583_crime_quatelet-s-first-claim-to-catch-attentio_2559213.png)
