“Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing… — Tariq Ramadan 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
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that… — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I don’t hate god to someone… — Lindsey Brown Copy Share Image
The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum,… — Anas Copy Share Image
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they… — Aldous Huxley 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
I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to… — Mike Hernacki Copy Share Image
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
