#morals

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#morality #morals #morals

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people. ↗

— James Larkin

#morals #people #raised #sobriety

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. ↗

— Thomas Cochrane

#biology #morals #must #physics #realm

The higher the building the lower the morals. ↗

— Noel Coward

#building #higher #lower #morals

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#ask #because #believe #censorship #character

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#morals #right #right-and-wrong #wrong #death

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#death

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cease #environment #exercise #faith #his

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness—not pain or mindless self-indulgence—is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#individualism #life #morals #objectivism #purpose

It is forbidden for a Muslim to curse anything, be it an animal, person, or lifeless thing. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #culture #curse #forbidden #hadees