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Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind. — Abhijit Naskar

So, at any rate, it appears. But appearance is not reality. — Gordon Graham

Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence — Munia Khan

I am neither moral or immoral. I am amoral, and I express it through my kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Whether morality is moral is an open question. — R.N. Prasher

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning ... — Peter Singer

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it. — Abhijit Naskar

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist. — Michel Templet

I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.) — Adrian Lamo

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable. — Confucius

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. — Francis Bacon

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left. — Peter Singer

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity. — Debasish Mridha

I charge my clients for my time and expertise, my heart is free. — Saurabh Gupta

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets. — Michel Templet

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune. — Julion Okram

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal. — Linda Fisher Thornton

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. — Immanuel Kant

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral. — Steven D. Levitt

Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic. — Dan Simmons

Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules. — David Chiles

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. — G.E. Moore

It's the love of right lures men to wrong. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it. — William A. Dembski

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices. — Linda Fisher Thornton

If ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red — Priyavrat Thareja

Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans. — Abhijit Naskar

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority. — Donald J. Trump

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. — Edward Abbey

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal. — Felix Alba-Juez

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. — G.E. Moore

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. — Douglas MacArthur

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess

The ethics of peace is liberal; it's not conservative based. — Henry Johnson Jr

Distant wrongs, she thought: an interesting issue in moral philosophy. Do past wrongs seem less wrong to us simply because they are less vivid? — Alexander McCall Smith

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men — Baruch Spinoza

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

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you? — K.L. Toth

There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat. — John Wayne

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself? — Orhan Pamuk

Socrates asked the key question:
why should we be moral? — Arundhati Roy

Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The greed of power drowns our ethics. — Henry Johnson Jr

A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity. — Debasish Mridha

Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma. — Shelley Schanfield

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact — Peter Singer

Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate. — Christopher Hitchens

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. — Francis Bacon

The greatest ethical test that we're ever going to face is the treatment of those who are at our mercy. — Lyn White

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? — Chuck Klosterman

What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

God has given everything to fulfill our need,
But he has nothing to satisfy our greed. — MIKAIL ALI

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. — Joyce Carol Oates

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature? — Kevin Dutton

Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business. — Dorothy Dunnett

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that. — Marjorie Grene

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest. — Marquis De Sade

Good, then, is indefinable.... — G.E. Moore

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority. — Nenia Campbell

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central. — Iris Murdoch

Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems — Martin Cohen

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. — Ayn Rand

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets. — Byrd Baggett

To be ethical, never think of anything unethical. To be moral, never hurt anyone. — Debasish Mridha

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them. — G.E. Moore

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. — Steven J. Carroll

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

Moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong. — Peter Singer

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? — Various

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself. — Charles Baudelaire

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ... — Aldous Huxley

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. — Ayn Rand

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. — G.E. Moore

Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives - and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. — Ayn Rand

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth. — Immanuel Kant

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost. — Abigail Landsbrook

It is important to be moral, but it is essential to be kind. — Debasish Mridha

Putting yourself in the place of others ... is what thinking ethically is all about. — Peter Singer

Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral. — Debasish Mridha

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy. — Michael Bloomberg

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel