“There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Doing the right thing is not always easy and its not always popular, but isn't it enough that its right? — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
True friendship is contagious, it never stops affecting the morals of those in the positive pursuit of enduring perfection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others,… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“We did an evil thing, father." "What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not… — Isaiah Berlin 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
“What is most remarkable about the philosophy of Kant, in my opinion, is the wide range of topics on which his thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band.… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Profit' is devoid of morality. He's just on a different plane than the rest of us. — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. — Guo Moruo Copy Share Image
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.” — Jon Erickson Copy Share Image
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality. — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image