Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
The person that truly loves you are those who doesn't tell you to take off you clothes but the one who says,… — Reymon Iglesia Copy Share Image
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Zen is not a morality. It never talks about right and wrong. It never talks about the saint and the sinner. It… — OSHO Copy Share Image
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others,… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life… — Wesley J. Smith Copy Share Image
Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“I did the wrong thing, and I lost him for real. But did you do the wrong thing? Jamie thinks it was… — Louise Rozett Copy Share Image
In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may… — Leon Blum Copy Share Image
“Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I believe the assertion that every human life has an inherent and inalienable value will only be strengthened if we apply this… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
“In the hierarchy of moral development, as defined by Lawrence Kohlberg, the lowest level is “following rules only to avoid punishment.” The… — Jerry L. Wyckoff Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image