Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under… — Byron White Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line. — S.C. Stephens Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image