417 quotes found
“Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy, so universal, so clear, so ancient, that it seems to come from God himself, like the lig...”
“Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing this moral truth even if they can't articulate ...”
“How can a man be still if he sees such a great wrong being instigated?''It's difficult, but it's necessary,' Professor While insisted. 'Science must go on unhindered, and if we bring politics into ...”
“If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.”
“Don't always think about being a subordinate, otherwise you would lose your self esteem and not succeed in society.”
“We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs”
“We should always assist our friends and enemies in order to create a decent social environment.”
“Sandy fidgeted with his pen. Theres something I didnt write down. Maybe I shouldnt tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler hes a bookie.No, he should not have told her. A small-...”
“Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.”
“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.”
“Dont swallow your moral code in tablet form.”
“It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I tak...”
“Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible.”
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced tha...”
“It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.”
“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do. Which religion, anyway? The one in which we happen to have been b...”
“In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!”
“The primary reason more explicit material is now being published is twofold: there's money in the sale of sensational material, and few are trying to stop those who want to make this money, that is...”
“Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying”
“Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.”
