Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never will you see your wrong, when you always see that youre right. — Gillis Triplett Copy Share Image
When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals, — Lewis Terman Copy Share Image
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are… — Kassandra Dick Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“There is no problem if one does not know anything about the worldly life, but he should know how to ‘adjust’. Others… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“Each of us would like the ability to do what we want to do, when we want to do it, without incurring… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity,… — George Leef Copy Share Image
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A time when morality will keep shifting, you need something that stands straight and can stay in place.” — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being… — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Your respect for people does not mean you need them This is your morality, even if they do not deserve it.” — Waciny Laredj Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis. — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not a description of what people do; it's a prescription for what we all should do.” — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image