Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind -… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
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
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Would a just God sentence a morally good individual to hell for never having heard of him? And for that matter, would… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
