Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality.… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For me, the moral dimension of life is that you are committed, to doing everything that you do, with a sense of… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“A good woman should neither take offense nor blame herself for someone else's faults, but simply strive all the harder to do… — Heldris de Cornualles Copy Share Image
I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats.… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We live in a nation where governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that… — J Hus Copy Share Image
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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