It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There was no right or wrong during war. The setting sun made me realize that the ones who would live to see… — Shayne Colaco Copy Share Image
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I still had a lot of practical medicine to learn, but would knowledge alone be enough, with life and death hanging in… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Let's think about living some day in a world made of friendship, with hearts beating with duty and feeling, and people and… — Sait Faik Abasıyanık Copy Share Image
“As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because… — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. That is why we must… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable:… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. ‘This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don’t… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image