I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
“One act of conscience that prevents you from a wrongdoing when nobody is watching, is far more civilized than a thousand laws… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.” — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
“Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the morality of songwriting, and the line in the sand I've arrived at is that sharing your… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making,… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Sometimes we face difficulties in life not because we are doing something wrong. We face difficulties because we are doing something right. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a society, we moved from expecting politicians to be better than the rest of us to expecting them to be more… — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
