The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm? — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart. — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.” — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.” — Martin Cohen Copy Share Image
You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices,… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
As you continue to successfully make each day better than the last, choosing to make great decisions that are not only ambitious,… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
We don't need any more regulation from government. You don't need overarching moralism to tell you how to live because human beings… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“We depend on our description of the world for everything we perceive. As a result, nothing new can be allowed to threaten… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“We never raised the morality of the action, because our politics took care of that.” — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.” — Zaman Ali Copy Share Image
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong. — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect". — Richard Summerbell Copy Share Image
I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else. — Sarah Huckabee Sanders Copy Share Image
Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
