“Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. -The Duchess — Alice In Wonderland Copy Share Image
Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others. — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Copy Share Image
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
“The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.” — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet what would… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Author: A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape, picking up free words and squirreling them away for later use. Subsequently,… — Leopold Throckmorton Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence…all tied together in a nice little package of morality.” — Gretchen de la O Copy Share Image
Life is never full of acceptance of respect, and people have to deal with it. — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter what you have done in the past, there is never wrong time to do the right thing. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion. — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just because something is normal, does not make it morally justified. Case in point: Antisemitism in Nazi Germany.” — Narcissismus Decimus Maximus Copy Share Image
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons??? — Author Name Copy Share Image
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions — Stephanie Kaza Copy Share Image
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. — George Washington Copy Share Image
