Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
We live in a nation where governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that… — J Hus Copy Share Image
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality.… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“A good woman should neither take offense nor blame herself for someone else's faults, but simply strive all the harder to do… — Heldris de Cornualles Copy Share Image
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