Activity Quote by Julien Benda

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

— Anthony Burgess

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are…

— Alan Watts

“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically…

— Louis Jolyon West

“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.”

— George Dennison

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

— Jonathan Sacks

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

— Johnny Hart

Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to…

— Stephen Spender

“A rejection of the prevailing state of affairs accounts, I think, for the explosive growth of intuitive anarchism among young people today. Their love…

— Murray Bookchin

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among…

— John Ralston Saul