Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Focusing on the public school system, former Secretary of Education, William Bennett explains the moral crisis in that institution by contrasting the… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate,… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Morality binds and blinds. This is not just something that happens to people on the other side. We all get sucked into… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“When we do a moral act to offset an immoral one, we are engaged in “moral cleansing.” When we do nothing, or… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking… — Fabrice Hadjadj Copy Share Image
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Another pitfall: Utilitarianism is interested only in making the majority of people happy. It is concerned with the happiness of the many,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can.… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Gay marriage was a trick: it's a tool to tell people to bake cakes. Laws are based on morality, so if it's… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that… — Christopher Hitchens 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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
