There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“For the ignorant, pain is a curse, but for the wise, it is a blessed moment for reinforcing one's inner goodness and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just… — George Harrar Copy Share Image
“How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off… — Nathaniel Culverwell Copy Share Image
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the… — Confucius Copy Share Image
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the… — Angelus Silesius Copy Share Image
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
