“Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not… — Joss Whedon 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
Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
“Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing,… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else -… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt,… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
“You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it.… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But it’s not a matter of morality, is it? It’s a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you’d… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“I have been followed by enough police robots to know by now how indestructible they are. You can blow them up or… — Harry Harrison Copy Share Image
“An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must… — Candy Darling Copy Share Image
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of… — George Dennison Copy Share Image
It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
“Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines… — Lucas Bale Copy Share Image
“Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything?… — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image