This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substitute for really absorbing our predicament, which is that everyone is going to die; there are circumstances that are...

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely...

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins – is self pity. Self pity is the worst...

The house you built can cave you in if you didn’t do it right.

Who is to blame? The filth peddler, of course, but even more than this vulgar entertainer, the filth consumer, the public. So long as men are corrupt and revel in sewer filth, entertainers will sell...

Takamasa Saegusa: ‘Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off...

Sometimes it’s difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to...

Mēs visi esam tik vienādi, bet savā būtībā tik dažādi. Manos gados varbūt tā domāt ir naivi? Bērnišķīgi? Sentimentāli? Varbūt esmu morālists? Un kas tur ļauns? Manā darbā un manā vecumā nemaz nevar iztikt bez...

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai; for...

Intuition is an institution of inspiration and to have it in life, all a person requires to do is an introspection with a tinge of the right imagination.

Morality is a subject to meddle in the affairs of other persons, guided by our preferences and convenience.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C” and “D.”...

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It is...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for...

Right isn’t always legal.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance ‘do the right...

Hollywood-Nobody’s impressed by anybody because they’re all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is...

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can’t make a choice, or won’t,...

I’d forgotten it’s an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

Morality is simply a device for leading people around by the nose.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge...

I did the wrong thing, and I lost him for real.But did you do the wrong thing? Jamie thinks it was the wrong thing. But do you?No. I don’t.I didn’t do what Jamie would have...

Inquisitor Lorsen’s thin lip curled. “There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the...

In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women’s domain further promotes the notion that it’s women’s morality that’s on the line when it comes to sex, men just can’t help themselves, so their...

What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of...

one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. But if I have...

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot–despite the pretensions and protestations...

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must...

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people—that’s not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

….I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another’s humanity—akin to torture.

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is – a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue....

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 their reasons in strictly secular...

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

There were a lot of things he could say. “Son of a bitch!” would have been a good one. Or he could say, “Welcome to civilization!” He could have said, “Laugh this one off!” He...