But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma;… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
“I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
According to "matter-ism," matter is all that exists. The only things that are real are physical things in motion governed by natural… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It would take expert navigators, like economists, to steer the world through the purgatory of capitalism and arrive at a future not… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, …… — Anonymous 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
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The universality of reason is a momentous realization, because it defines a place for morality. If I appeal to you do do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“Focusing on the public school system, former Secretary of Education, William Bennett explains the moral crisis in that institution by contrasting the… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/495/john-adams-529_american-founding-fa_i-t-is-religion-and-morality-alone-which_2063414.jpg)
