Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. — Confucius Copy Share Image
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. — John Locke Copy Share Image
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
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that… — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of… — Bart Schultz Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually.… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“To argue against abortion on the grounds that it prevents beings of high intrinsic value coming into the world is implicitly to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
