Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
“Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true… If you do something… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will… — Ronald A. Knox Copy Share Image
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life,… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,… — Samuel Copy Share Image
“Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance.… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, …… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
“. . .we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an… — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
