Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?” — M. COCHET M Copy Share Image
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life. — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
“We have seen the kind of morality which is even now shaping itself in the ideas of the masses and of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever… — De Robigne Mortimer Bennett Copy Share Image
“Our dream of heaven cannot be realized on earth. Once we begin to rely upon our reason, and to use our powers… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions — Stephanie Kaza Copy Share Image
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey Copy Share Image
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons??? — Author Name Copy Share Image
“Just because something is normal, does not make it morally justified. Case in point: Antisemitism in Nazi Germany.” — Narcissismus Decimus Maximus Copy Share Image
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion. — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No matter what you have done in the past, there is never wrong time to do the right thing. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence…all tied together in a nice little package of morality.” — Gretchen de la O Copy Share Image
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