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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry 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
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the problem. But whether they've heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff.… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Graham functioned as a megaphone for conservative biblical ideas that dovetailed with conservative politics, including family, sexual morality, and adherence to laws.… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“But this part of me...' Mor wiped at her tears with her free hand. 'It didn't matter as much, when my family… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“One of my friends who leads meditation retreats honors the Asian habit, as I do, of bowing to the image of the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“[ From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still,… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
“Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The commitment to morality, or non-harming, is a source of tremendous strength, because it helps free the mind from the remorse of… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
“What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch TV instead… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
![“[ From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still, it's worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of the most powerful institutions - church and army, both. He is an atheist, 'And I have been…” quote by Robert Altman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/robert-altman-13161_army_from-a-may-1-2004-article-entitled-still_3126954.jpg)
