“A strange mixture of disbelief and complete trust washed over me. On the one hand, I had no way to explain what… — Larry Gottlieb 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
“There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon… — F. LaGard Smith Copy Share Image
The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This is the first law of relativism: When right or wrong are a matter of personal choice, we surrender the privilege of… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The Biblical writers not only had no knowledge of these things, but they had a perverted concept of life and the universe.… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“Vin, Vin. Why can't you see? This isn't about good or evil. Morality doesn't even enter into it. Good men will kill… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In their admonitions to us, the Founders were very clear that to maintain a republic like ours, to maintain a constitutional republic… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the… — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“The primary reason more explicit material is now being published is twofold: there's money in the sale of sensational material, and few… — Linda Harvey Copy Share Image
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they… — Steven Pinker 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
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Democracy without morality is impossible. Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving,… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Sportsmanship...what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your… — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“What would you do?" "Is this one of those morality questions? Cause I got Unsatisfactory on my last few official psych evals… — S.E. Jakes Copy Share Image
Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.” Potter… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
