Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to… — Des Browne Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to… — William H. Prescott 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
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
“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 answer of Solon on the question, 'Which is the most perfect popular govemment,' has never been exceeded by any man since… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents… — Greta Gerwig 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
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“There can be no accountability in relativism. Those who answer to themselves ultimately answer to no one of consequence. And this makes… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
Never choose the easy path, choose the one that has morals! It's YOUR life, live it! Be honest, follow your heart and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dairy farmers routinely remove calves from their mothers at an early age so that the milk will be available for humans; anyone… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?" "What's the point of having a heart… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Ours is a visual world with citizens who delight in those who appear good or gifted or great. Thus, we find it… — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
To restore morality we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs. From our earliest history in 1776 when we… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his… — Harry Jones Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
“Just as there are those who believe we should change morality to suit our amorality, so there are those who believe we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“We take comfort in the notion of an unbridgeable gulf between good and evil, but maybe we should understand, as Zimbardo's work… — Shane Bauer Copy Share Image
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect… — George Washington Copy Share Image
