The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it. — Kristen McMenamy Copy Share Image
If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable. — Frank Dane Copy Share Image
“Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible.” — Gabriel Neil Copy Share Image
“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“Is it better to be a bad man and accomplish great things, or be a great man and accomplish nothing?” — Vincent B. Davis II Copy Share Image
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The one thing you can say about the high road, there doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic on it these… — Randy Vader Copy Share Image
“If Abraham actually had sacrificed Isaac, would he therefore have been less justified?” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To be evil is to suffer incredulity of your person who is faceted by the non-effects of a responsive behavior. — Isaac Thomas Copy Share Image
Never compromise your morals for anyone or anything or you'll surely regret it. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
