Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“All humans have their own morality, which is fluid between people, and, on a societal level, across space and time. That’s why… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty.… — James Caan Copy Share Image
On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days… Such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think about it, just the psychology of the superhero is, 'Because I can, I should protect people, and I should… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“What is most remarkable about the philosophy of Kant, in my opinion, is the wide range of topics on which his thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band.… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for… — Pascal Copy Share Image
“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is… — J.K. Franko 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
![“It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what…” quote by John Kasich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d87/john-kasich-1650_approach_it-s-an-individual-morality-in-values-th_511533.jpg)
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