If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“More than Iran's enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption... a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image