#morality

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. ↗

— Robert Reich

#better #better job #crisis #doing #instead

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#critical #form #how #issues #morality

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner? ↗

— k.d. lang

#compassion-for-animals #healthy-diet #love-of-god #morality #respect

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality

Morality is not only taught; it is caught. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#morality #only #taught

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. ↗

— Herbert Read

#been #even #exists #form #morality

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#between #ceaselessly #decisive #essence #evil

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

— Doreen Valiente

#virtues #wicca #beauty