Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“It takes a Bigger Courage to take on Danger, where None can be Sighted.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
“You can't tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order.… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image