“Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of… — Victoria Ocampo Copy Share Image
“Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects of this kind among… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between what is wrong and what is evil. Evil is committed when clarity is taken away from what… — John Hartung Copy Share Image
When you are hooked between doing what you want or doing what others want you to do, just try and do the… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The answer of Solon on the question, 'Which is the most perfect popular govemment,' has never been exceeded by any man since… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?" "What's the point of having a heart… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold Copy Share Image
“If I am disobeying orders, I'd rather be with God against men than with men against God.” — Aristides de Souza Mendes do Amaral e Abranches Copy Share Image
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image