Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake. — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.” — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
“Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this morality is text-less… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“All humans have their own morality, which is fluid between people, and, on a societal level, across space and time. That’s why… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Honestly, most of us can face almost anything except our own mortality. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm creates an inspirational environment for uplifting moral and spirit to a new high. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert Copy Share Image
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
