At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
**Girls, I cannot stress this enough: if you aren't being treated right by a guy, don't wait for him to change. Ditch… — Mel Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Morals are difficult things to talk about, but what has happened is that we have invented a moral sense, which is rotting… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“When I ask him if he thinks there's a moral to his story, he says he's sure there must be, but doesn't… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[At the scene of a murder] The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters,… — Shirley Rousseau Murphy Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Reasoning does create a paradox: it leads both to more rule following and more rebelliousness. By explaining moral principles, parents encourage their… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
“Sahib, a bamboo doesn’t flower, but usually when it does it dies. So I am metaphorical to this plant. Last night, I… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it ... if… — Emer De Vattel Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Brandon, until this very moment, the world and the people in it have always been dark and incomprehensible to me, and I've… — Arthur Laurents Copy Share Image
“You've deprived yourself of enjoyment for most of your life. You're aloof from others. You've never let yourself be selfish, and look… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the question of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Authors as diverse as Matthew Arnold and George Orwell have given thought to the serious question: what is to be done about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Where I grew up in my city, there was no one who acted like me, so I felt insecure, and when I… — Doechii Copy Share Image
“She might have seen what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world’s concern at her situation -… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Morala constituie pentru arta o primejdie pe care multi o subestimeaza, arta se apropie mai mult de natura, prin cruzimea ei infantila,… — Marin Preda Copy Share Image
“The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
![“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or…” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb2/bertrand-russell-69_certain_the-church-is-in-its-major-part-an-oppon_1591489.jpg)
![“Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caa/richard-dawkins-115_chapters_jesus-was-not-content-to-derive-his-ethi_1062044.jpg)
![“[At the scene of a murder] The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters, they killed for food and to train their young--well maybe sometimes for sport. But this violent act by some unknown human had nothing to do with hunting--for a human to brutally maim…” quote by Shirley Rousseau Murphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d1/shirley-rousseau-murphy-44289_cats_at-the-scene-of-a-murder-the-cats-bloodt_1774000.jpg)
![“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting, tempted*] How do I know what might be in them? I've heard of girls being drugged by the like of you. *Higgins whips out his penknife; cuts a…” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/george-bernard-shaw-68_bernard-shaw_higgins-snatching-a-chocolate-cream-from_2692762.png)
