Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money blurs the line between truth and lie; simplicity and greed.It can break ties, it can break hearts. — MalditaReaper Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls,… — Carlo Levi Copy Share Image
Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Integrity is the integration of outward actions and inner values. A person of integrity is the same on the outside and on… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“There comes from this, then, at least a working definition of a soul: one’s capacity to sit with the mysteries of a… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As you continue to successfully make each day better than the last, choosing to make great decisions that are not only ambitious,… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are… — Will Self Copy Share Image
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image