Abstraction Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“People sometimes say that it is “old-fashioned” to define morality based on the Bible, but nothing is more “old- fashioned” than wanting to define…

— Dannah K. Gresh

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

— Anonymous

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

— Lord Acton

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

— Karen Horney

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended…

— Thomas Paine

“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this…

— Austin Osman, Spare

“[T]he Old Testament, [...] if considered as a general rule of conduct, would lead to consequences destructive of all principles of humanity and morality.”

— David Hume

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they…

— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Which thou shalt do; if thou shalt go about every action as thy last action, free from all vanity, all passionate and wilful aberration…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: "Thou shalt not!”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald