“Take away all the moral beauty and sweetness in the Word, and the Bible is left wholly a dead letter, a dry,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw,… — Ayn Rand 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
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I am charged with guarding sanity, not morality. If you want to stay together, do not split. If you want peace, do… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The do's and don'ts of life shouldn't stop us from living it the way we want. Yes there are lessons to be… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I think that all moralities adequately serving the function of fostering social cooperation must contain a norm of reciprocity - a norm… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“But . . . but was evil an entity at all? What caused evil? Imperfection in activity . . . imperfection of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While there are many who feel that morality must be built into law, I believe that the elimination of transsexualism is not… — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak… — William Patten Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I do give a fuck. I'm sensitive. I don't live in the moment when it effects my future. These things that may… — Karishma Brahmbhatt Copy Share Image
“Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Morality was viewed by the Egyptians not as the assertion of self against the world but rather as the individual search for… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between what is wrong and what is evil. Evil is committed when clarity is taken away from what… — John Hartung Copy Share Image
