#morals

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have to be brought into line by the threat of hell or the promise of paradise; we merely have to be reminded that it is we ourselves -- that is, the most mature and reasonable parts of us (seldom present in the midst of our crises and obsessions) -- who want to lead the sort of life which we once imagined supernatural beings demanded of us. An adequate evolution of morality from superstition to reason should mean recognizing ourselves as the authors of our own moral commandments. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#commandments #god #life #morality #morals

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

— Byrd Baggett

#honesty #life-lessons #morals #team-work #values

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humans #morals

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#man #menace #mind #morals #society

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

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#dead #economic #economic independence #exactly #footing

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born. ↗

— - Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.

#amazing #arabs #atomic #atomic-bomb #beautiful

But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#morals #home