If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One who is committed finds way when obstacle in endeavour tries to distract him & one who is not honest to his… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“For the ignorant, pain is a curse, but for the wise, it is a blessed moment for reinforcing one's inner goodness and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“The popular concept–that we should each determine our own morality–is based on the belief that the spiritual realm is nothing at all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
“The nature of atheism merits clarification on two further points which involve less common ideas about theism. The first involves the idea… — Austin Cline Copy Share Image
“If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are… — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values. — Paul McGuire Copy Share Image
A Rabbit runs , jumps and lives only for 15 years! A Turtle doesn't run, does nothing, yet lives for 300 years!… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
The whole realm of morality and ethics is something that has escaped the attention of women, by and large. And it needs… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image