Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there’s just what you can do, and what you can’t.” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you want to live in a world without judgmentalism, it also means living in a world without morality and decency. — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to… — Mike Hernacki Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“ Father, we are uniquely capable of morality. We must be moral, because we can be moral. He stood very still as… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society.” — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You dont need religion to have morals. If you cant determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.” — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in.” — Evan Grinde Copy Share Image
Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
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