My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer...

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.

Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed...

The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of conscience growth. We have failed to understand that individual evolution can...

The good Lord wouldn’t have put it in your heart if it wasn’t right.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it is...

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.” L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910

In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one...

Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the planting of seeds that have produced new forms of truth, morality and meaning...

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life...

Paul Chehade is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person’s religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God’s unconditional love for all people, helping communities worldwide.Ethical junction making choices easy.

On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,–“But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do...

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

There is overwhelming evidence that certain mental disorders occur with much higher frequency among homosexuals.” For example, 40% of homosexual men have a history of major depression. That compares with only 3% for men in...

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator...

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee...

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand,” the father had told his adoring son. “And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone.” ~Thomas to...

In fact the “mask” theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in “The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism”, and Robert Jackall,...

If I am disobeying orders, I’d rather be with God against men than with men against God.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one’s true character is revealed.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations – a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency – without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

Man is more perfect than god. Although this woman’s doctrine, in which she was brought up from childhood, told her than all men were lost sinners, I have never heard her censure a man with...

One thing, Ms. Gray, is forgotten by this tragedy: the embryo is human, not a nonhuman as the Supreme Court declared. Abortion never was about the poor or about women’s rights. It’s an ideology with...

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy...

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world’s most pointless forms of suffering.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his...

[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race.Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds,...

The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.

Integrity is not just a smart and moral way to navigate your personal life. It’s also part of your professional branding, and it will inevitably affect your business success.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too...

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.

We have laws in our country that tell us not to murder or steal and we have police that enforce them. The question is whether you personally need the police to watch you. If they...

According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into...

All lines are gray in the dark.

If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven’t had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

… ohne den Menschen etwas vorschreiben zu dürfen, würde die Moral gar kein Vergnügen bereiten.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!