Character Quote by Leon Wieseltier Download Open image “I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.” — Leon Wieseltier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Morality Religion Values
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion. — Kane Copy Share Image
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
You dont need religion to have morals. If you cant determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful.… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
