Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
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The do's and don'ts of life shouldn't stop us from living it the way we want. Yes there are lessons to be… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
“I am charged with guarding sanity, not morality. If you want to stay together, do not split. If you want peace, do… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
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Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
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“But . . . but was evil an entity at all? What caused evil? Imperfection in activity . . . imperfection of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
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For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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