If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.
I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and morals. It was that love that was no more bad than wind and sea and sand lying side...
Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.
No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's...
Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.
People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it on the radio, read or watch it on the internet, hear about it at work etc. Then immo...
When ever you allow your self to be non judgmental mostly to your self, and others, and with an open mind to the things and people who surround you - you have triumphed to a higher self of substance....
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.
The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge, Aomame said.Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. I...
At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were an...
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelt...
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.