“There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to… — John Fraser Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If Congress wants to get involved in the business of morality by allowing a moment of silence in our schools, I support… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
“The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood.… — Bart Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Who is to blame? The filth peddler, of course, but even more than this vulgar entertainer, the filth consumer, the public. So… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal… — John Granger Copy Share Image
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Lenin refused to recognise moral norms established by slave-owners for their slaves and never observed by the slave-owners themselves; he called upon… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief?… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“First, if you are a homosexual or feel that inclination, keep yourself pure. If you are unmarried, you should practice abstinence from… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just… — Galen Cranz Copy Share Image
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
