Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut Copy Share Image
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most… — Chip Pitts Copy Share Image
It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental,… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than… — Ron Paul 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
“The moral of the story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it...some stories just… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical. — John Wooden Copy Share Image