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Morality Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you…
- It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went…
- Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each…
- The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
- Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom…
More Morality Quotes
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Grub first, then ethics. — Bertolt Brecht