If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Leadership flourishes with innovation, intelligence, vision, honesty and doing the right things. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“I get my limits from a rational consideration of the consequences of my actions, that's how I determine what's moral. I get… — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,… — Manis Friedman Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image