“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
“As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Mind is the master of this planet, and when that mind is not moral, not conscientious, not wise, it leads to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own… — Embeth Davidtz Copy Share Image
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace… — Glenn R. Schiraldi Copy Share Image
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized… — William Woodruff Copy Share Image
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Lidah tidak pernah peduli samada kata-kata itu terbit dari perasaan ataupun akal fikiran. Lidah hanya menjalankan tugasnya iaitu berkata-kata.” — AD Rahman Ahmad Copy Share Image
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see… — oscar wilde Copy Share Image
“The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/catherine-camus-12238_character_albert-camus-was-viewed-by-many-as-an-au_2627014.jpg)
![“[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_albert-camus-started-thinking-through-se_1084847.jpg)
