Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
“If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn’t both be… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
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
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
When it comes to matters of the heart, that's all that needs to be kept in mind, always, at all times. Whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we enrich ourselves by invading… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up… — Cliff Robertson Copy Share Image
Suppose a student of mine writes in her exam that "morality is completely relative to culture, so nothing is absolutely right or… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important...… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Different moralities must share some general features if they are to perform their functions of coordinating beings having particular kinds of motivations.… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“What is morality, then? It is subjective. It has no objective validity. A moral conduct highly valued by our fathers is now… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“In fact, the Nazis did not have a euthanasia program, in the proper sense of the word. Their so-called euthanasia program was… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious. The… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
![“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they…” quote by Christine de Pizan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/57a/christine-de-pizan-13257_abuse_causing-any-damage-or-harm-to-one-party_1474061.jpg)
