The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
“In this world, where the strong prey upon the weak, and the cunning manipulate the naive, it is imperative that you become… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“But one thing took deep root in me—the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance… — M.K. Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are:… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There's always plenty of beautiful girls..Truth is, u can't have them all. Better to find and keep one than lose yourself in… — Jeromy Shingongo Copy Share Image
The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to… — Heinrich von Treitschke Copy Share Image
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A rationalism of serving any living being with a consistent ethics and morality of an unquestionable nature in any sphere of activity… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he’d managed to create his own, different from ours, better.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image