Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a… — Marijane Meaker Copy Share Image
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Guilt is emotion which one experiences when he does something wrong and is against moral value. It sometimes reflected as judgement of… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“Utilitarians are often immensely conscientious people, who work for humanity and give up meat for the sake of the animals. They think… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wealth had not corrupted him. What he’d chosen to do with his wealth corrupted him. First he insulated himself from ordinary human… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You know something is wrong when chapter tests determine your twenties. The fate of a young life in modern America is dependent… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director… — Kevin Williamson Copy Share Image
Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image