Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of standing above temptations,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins.… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully. — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and… — Mohammad Rafiq Teli Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image