"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance… — Richard Weikart Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child… — Gregory Kane Copy Share Image
“Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
When there is a conflict, which group's sense of right and wrong should prevail? If a morality is a system that allows… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional statement, my own hypothesis about the origin of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome. — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
You have to do what is right for yourself, nobody else is walking in your shoes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to… — Mike Hernacki Copy Share Image
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But . . . but was evil an entity at all? What caused evil? Imperfection in activity . . . imperfection of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that… — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Religion sees death as a journey to a surreal paradise. I see death as the end of all good and evil. The… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
