Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“So, once more, the question is: Does the Bible forbid homosexual behavior? Well, I’ve already said that it does. The Bible is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
“It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action.” — Al Batt Copy Share Image
The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense… — Benjamin McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Two wrongs' create an additional problem. 'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse. 'Two rights' create a solution.” — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
