Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

We should always assist our friends and enemies in order to create a decent social environment.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely — noted events of that year in the civilized world. It was also one of the most widely and...

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its...

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on...

Auguste Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything...

To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views with a believer even for a short time, and let us make the...

Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.

Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I’ll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that’s what I call pure, honest fun.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

Would a just God sentence a morally good individual to hell for never having heard of him? And for that matter, would a just God expel a morally good individual to hell who has heard...

Court games aren’t fair. They don’t judge men by their worth, and they aren’t about what’s just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can...

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

Listen to me, kid. It don’t matter what happens. It don’t matter what anybody thinks or does. All that matters is that you keep fightin’ and never, you hear me? never give up.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one’s conscience in the silence...

Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense...

These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to...

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more....

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country’s interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to...

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails...

More than Iran’s enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption… a senior official in an important American political center said: ‘Instead of bombs, send...

All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that are notoriously negative towards women.

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.

As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that...

And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself,...

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body...

Compassion is the basis of morality.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

Never do anything that you can’t admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it’s probably wrong.

I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says ‘Judge...

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...

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving…. AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug...

… what you think is right isn’t the same as knowing what is right.

Across the board… Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are – and we’re not weird, are we? Hell no, we’re just...