The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“English: "The point is not to have original opinions, but to have the right ones." Česky: „Nejde tolik o to mít originální,… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
“From what I can tell, morality is a word. Nothing more. There're the things people do when others are watching and the… — Stephanie Kuehn Copy Share Image
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“We’ve been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don’t. There’s no such thing as the… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
“Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the… — Ovadya ben Malka Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“There is no problem if one does not know anything about the worldly life, but he should know how to ‘adjust’. Others… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“Each of us would like the ability to do what we want to do, when we want to do it, without incurring… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Leadership is comprised of a can do mentality and raises the bar of ethics and morality! Make it a point to treat… — Bobby Compton Copy Share Image