Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunnaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the… — Hammurabi Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional… — John Rawlings Rees Copy Share Image
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found. — Tim McIlrath Copy Share Image
Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to… — Des Browne Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
