“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
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If your conscience objects, surely God also objects since He is even greater.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than… — Eve Forward Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is the temptation of… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,… — Samuel Copy Share Image
“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic. — William Barr Copy Share Image
“Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
