“My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count.… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it.… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
“But it’s not a matter of morality, is it? It’s a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you’d… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
“There is no morality in war', they said, 'but cannibals never killed more in one day that they could eat. In your… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
“Ethics is [...] the philosophic branch of inquiry which talks about right and wrong, which talks about our moral obligations, which inquires… — Michael Surge Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The world has far too much morality. If you added up all the homicides committed in pursuit of self-help justice, the casualties… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation—by the Golden Dawn, or by… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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