The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Nicioadata nu aprob sau dezaprob un lucru, e o atitudine absurda fata de viata. Nu suntem trimisi in lume ca sa ne… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands… — John McCain Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag 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
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If Congress wants to get involved in the business of morality by allowing a moment of silence in our schools, I support… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
