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Morality Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.
- Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...
- I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness…
- With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig,
- People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have…
- The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward…
- Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid…
More Morality Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams