Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“When mystical elements are introduced into morality, the whole system ends up being corrupted.” — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god. — Kane Morgan Copy Share Image
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
A simple apology could fix a friendship that shouldn't have ended in the first place. Don't let your pride stop you from… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What our generation is in danger of forgetting is not only that morals are of necessity a phenomenon of individual conduct but… — F. A. Hayek Copy Share Image
it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it follows that there… — Fulton J. Sheen, Ph.D.,D.D Copy Share Image
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I’m accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows — Peter Woodcock Copy Share Image
Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith and hope exist. — Arsenio V Manalo Jr Copy Share Image
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country? — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
