In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the… — Ovadya ben Malka Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The fact is, the great intellectuals of the western religious tradition from Augustine to Aquinas and Peter Abelard became philosophically dominant. The… — R. Joseph Hoffmann Copy Share Image
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
