There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and… — William James Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That morality—which some people imagine is God-given and eternal—is as malleable and learned as our ideas of beauty, our enemies, our fashion… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Saving and Helping people is of over importance because even though, you may not know his/her abilities and virtues that person may… — Charles Brown Copy Share Image
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into… — Liane Norman Copy Share Image
“the term ethics is often used interchangeably with the word morality. That the two have become virtual synonyms is a sign of… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“The primary reason more explicit material is now being published is twofold: there's money in the sale of sensational material, and few… — Linda Harvey Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Integrity is the integration of outward actions and inner values. A person of integrity is the same on the outside and on… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
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