“It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.” — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of so much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends… — Greta Christina 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 end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Sportsmanship...what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your… — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand… — Derek Jarman 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
“That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder.” — Dániel Berzsenyi Copy Share Image
“Always be good to yourself and others. Always do what is right even if doing something wrong is quicker, more rewarding or… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching… — Edward Mayhew Copy Share Image
The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
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