He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.” — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart. — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm? — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.” Potter… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Morality is separate from the ideals of men. It exists whole somewhere, to be approached—but never truly understood—by the mortal. The Philosophy… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus… — Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Copy Share Image
“If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind -… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image