Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“It would take expert navigators, like economists, to steer the world through the purgatory of capitalism and arrive at a future not… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Relativists can't accuse others of wrongdoing. I Say Relativism makes it impossible to criticize the behavior of others, because relativism ultimately denies… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
“ I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
“How do you think that the great fortunes and colonies have been made? By theft, war, and conquest.” “Then morality does not… — David King Copy Share Image
“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is not a single person in the media today that could wear Dr. Benjamin Carson's uniform, whatever uniform he puts on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“If science could make a person understand the true significance of morality in human existence, - and more importantly, if science could… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Morality aside, there are other factors deterring 'strategic defaults,' whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
“Of course we would all like to "believe" in something, like to assuage our private guilts in public causes, like to lose… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of… — Ria Banerjee Copy Share Image
California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state." "Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about a lot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
