Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity that restricts to only conformity, faith, devotion and obedience without practicing accountability, morality, transparency and integrity is just pure spiritual… — Michael Chuang Copy Share Image
I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that… The real job of every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“Author: A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape, picking up free words and squirreling them away for later use. Subsequently,… — Leopold Throckmorton Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“... a preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate;… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“That morality—which some people imagine is God-given and eternal—is as malleable and learned as our ideas of beauty, our enemies, our fashion… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and… — William James Copy Share Image
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