A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry -… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Listen to me, kid. It don’t matter what happens. It don’t matter what anybody thinks or does. All that matters is that… — J. Grace Pennington Copy Share Image
Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God, I love the "fine morality" of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then… — David Weber Copy Share Image
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions… — Elizabeth Hay 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
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the morality of songwriting, and the line in the sand I've arrived at is that sharing your… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to… — French Proverb Copy Share Image
“But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state." "Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.” — Adlai E. Steveson Copy Share Image
“If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
