Morality Quote by Sam Harris Download Open image ““We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.”” — Sam Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Morality Thought provoking
“i never knew anyone so relentless to his ancestors - you make up for your soapiness toward the living” — E.M.Forster Copy Share Image
“It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“And we'll punish the people who don't conform. Not bodily of course. This is a civilized country.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
“the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.” — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are the consequences… — Kassandra Dick Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image