Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The existence of the corporation, as we have it with us today, was never dreamed of by the fathers . . .The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just cannot buy, like manners, morals and intelligence. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and… — Jeff Bryant Copy Share Image
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
If you want to live in a world without judgmentalism, it also means living in a world without morality and decency. — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we enrich ourselves by invading… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral,… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
“We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band.… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
“Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious,… — Jean Said Makdisi Copy Share Image
“If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
![“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11: I'll talk about the situation in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d5/christopher-hitchens-117_2001_some-readers-may-have-noticed-an-icy-lit_2701880.jpg)
