#morality

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#always #console #ignorance #knowledge #me

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. ↗

— George Pataki

#engaging #equation #everyone #freedom #israel

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#beings #conscious #consciousness #morality #really

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#care #comprehensive #coverage #easier #equal

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#commandments #morality #new #new way #reformation

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ends #force #gun #mind #morality

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#any #civilization #men #morality #reject

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#beings #brain #fated #force #happiness

Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#morality #weakness