“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality. — African Spir Copy Share Image
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to… — Mike Hernacki Copy Share Image
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I don’t hate god to someone… — Lindsey Brown Copy Share Image
The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum,… — Anas Copy Share Image
“I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
