moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“The concept of good and evil, or morality in general, exists only in the mind of a sane individual, and not the… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Given the imperfections of our society and the apparent downward spiral of spiritual and moral values in recent years, thinking has become… — M Scott Peck Copy Share Image
When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can… — Richard Grossinger Copy Share Image
“Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
The person that truly loves you are those who doesn't tell you to take off you clothes but the one who says,… — Reymon Iglesia Copy Share Image
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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