I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear… — John Gray Copy Share Image
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is… — Madame de Stael 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
Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Humility is similar to humanity with both being deepily connected with the behavioural kindness as the first priority on the ground of… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return. Integrity is how you act when you think… — Thea Nishimori Copy Share Image
“It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
