I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes,...

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what’s right before you decide what’s possible.

Do right simply because it is right.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less...

Any society’s upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d’you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.

There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another...

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn’t sin but wants to sin.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they...

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in...

Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to...

But because though art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth” (Rev. 3:16).

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any...

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in...

It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important

morality… comes at a price.

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle,...

high in morality,high in honesty a person or a group is most lonely on this planet .

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one’s worldview.

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail)....

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

Greaser ‘ didn’t have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn’t have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn’t have. It’s the individual.

In foreign policy, a modest acceptance of fate will often lead to discipline rather than indifference. The realization that we cannot always have our way is the basis of a mature outlook that rests on...

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn’t...

Lástima por aquellos que prefieren dañar su integridad moral antes que quedarse solos.

Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

As the sailor locates his position on the sea by “shooting” the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.

Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma...

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation – men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.