The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“How can you escape from your own conscience, the reality of your own actions?” — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
“Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and… — Travis Culliton Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it?… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Honesty is a moral virtue, a matter of the will. Honesty means willing the truth with the whole of your heart. This… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Pro Life’ or ‘Right to Life’ movement is misnamed. Those who protest against abortion but dine regularly on the bodies of chickens,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Real wealth is not the weight of coins; it is the net value of your honesty” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.” — Mencius Copy Share Image
You have to do what is right for yourself, nobody else is walking in your shoes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper. — Charles A. Dana Copy Share Image
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Simon N. Patten Copy Share Image
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image