“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, amazon.com
“A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“This is very American: to require those who are suffering in some way to be morally pure, and then to be only eligible for assistance from others if we fit that narrow definition of purity.”— Kelly Davio, medium.com
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. — Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“When someone categorizes something evil, as Sherman did, as Peter and Mr. A repeatedly did, he implicitly gives himself permission to do what needs to be done to destroy it.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“By 1939, Franz Halder, a German general, had taken to carrying a pistol so that when he was in the room with Hitler, he might assassinate him. But he could never pull the trigger. He could not reconcile how he could take up as “human being and a Christian to shoot down an unarmed man.””— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“As I see it, man is a product of his conditioning, and the social forces which mold his morality and conduct—including racial prejudice—are influenced more by material things like food and economic necessities than by the fear and awe and bigotry generated by the high priests of commercialized super…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector…”— Benjamin Harrison, presidential-power.org
“The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Disturbed characters most often target folks possessing two qualities they don’t posses: conscientiousness and excessive agreeableness (i.e. deference). So, it’s a solid conscience that makes you most vulnerable to narcissistic manipulation. Manipulators use guilt and shame as their prime weapons. B…”— Dr. George Simon, drgeorgesimon.com
“All of our laws are made on morals; I concede that. It's not right to murder someone. But "family values" and morals today are a label for your sexual behavior, and that's what I find disturbing.”— Larry Flynt, esquire.com
“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then…”— Philip Zimbardo, goodreads.com
“The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.”— Pat Robertson, beliefnet.com
“The spirit of barter is everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. T…”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com