“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life. — Lee Pace Copy Share Image
I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Communism is a utopian view of history, because the impossible is necessary for its realization. In essence, this requires a high level… — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will… — Ronald A. Knox Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true… If you do something… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its manifestations. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
“And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality. — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
“The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.” — Alfred Alcorn Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
