The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As you continue to successfully make each day better than the last, choosing to make great decisions that are not only ambitious,… — Anurag Prakash Ray 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
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The existence of the corporation, as we have it with us today, was never dreamed of by the fathers . . .The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
