“To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to… — Steven M. Cahn Copy Share Image
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Think about goodness like you think about gravity. Whether or not you believe in gravity, it is still there. Every day you… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth. — David Gergen Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“In foreign policy, a modest acceptance of fate will often lead to discipline rather than indifference. The realization that we cannot always… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
