Arbiter Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arbiter Moral Needs Order Sacred Spirituality Supreme
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“No creed must be accepted upon authority of a "divine" nature. Religions must be put to the question. no moral dogma must be taken… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
