Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“There are general laws current in the world as to morality. 'Thou shalt not steal,' for instance. That has “necessarily been current… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison Copy Share Image
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual freedom. Eighteenth-century parents allowed their daughters… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet what would… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Author: A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape, picking up free words and squirreling them away for later use. Subsequently,… — Leopold Throckmorton Copy Share Image
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that… The real job of every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Zen is not a morality. It never talks about right and wrong. It never talks about the saint and the sinner. It… — OSHO Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
![“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11: I'll talk about the situation in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/christopher-hitchens-117_2001_some-readers-may-have-noticed-an-icy-lit_2701880.jpg)
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