He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday.… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The main thing is you have to be under the protection of spirituality, under the protection of morality, under the protection of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Stopping at nothing and doing what's in your heart that you know is right, means determination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you want to practice the worldly religion, then you need to understand only two things: 1. No living being be hurt… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Letting go something, that is never meant to be there anymore is a love for life....but holding on to it is, the… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even if we ignore the 'non-theoretical' knowledge which we acquire through experience (such as the knowledge of what something tastes like) and… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and… — Molière Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make. — Elliot S. Maggin 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
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality,… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“People today will have you believing life is a blank slate upon which you can write anything at all--this is poetic, even… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality.… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really… — Jonathan King Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They… — William J. Brennan 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
“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking… — Tozer, A. W Copy Share Image
For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
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