“If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of… — Martin Luther King Copy Share Image
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).” — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists… — Albert Schweitzer 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 cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the… — Una McCormack Copy Share Image
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and… — Jeff Bryant Copy Share Image
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
