“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing,… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what… — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
“He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. ‘This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don’t… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral. — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
“The world is going to turn upside down in a way that the honest man will live uncomfortably -- while the dishonest… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character… — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
A parent of moral standing will never use their child to hurt others because they understand that at some point it will… — DrAnil Kr Sinha 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
I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
“Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and… — Travis Culliton Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“I’m not really interested in the black and white, the 'goodies and baddies.' I find the complexity of the gray areas more… — Jacqueline Winspear 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
“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned” — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
