Morality Quotes - Page 21

• A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

  Garrett Hardin

  Ideas, Technique, May

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

  Garrett Hardin

  Decay, Certainty, Asks

  "Naked Emperors : Essays of a Taboo-Stalker". Book by Garrett Hardin, 1982.

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• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, People, Doubt

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  Sam Harris

  Impact, World, Economics

  "The Moral Landscape : Thinking About Human Values in Universal Terms" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2010.

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  Sam Harris

  Framework, Universal, Untrue

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• The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Use, Landscape

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• It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Motherhood, Literature, Modern

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition

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• All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

  Alexander Herzen

  Organization, Political, Atheism

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• One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy, Issues, Way

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• Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Views, Ordinary, Ethics

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• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Doe, Records

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• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ayurveda, Digestion

  Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

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• The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

  David Hume

  Pregnancy, Ethics, Reason

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• Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Wise, Children

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pregnancy, Society, Church

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• Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Inherent

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.459, Penguin

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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Important, Society

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

  Jewel

  Integrity, People, Brave

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• Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

  Penn Jillette

  Punishment, Needs, Rewards

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Men, Religion

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• Democracy without morality is impossible.

  Jack Kemp

  Freedom, Democracy, Impossible

  "From Contagion To Outbreak: The Death Of Leadership" by Alicia Bassuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2016.

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• He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Crystals, Scientist

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• I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Believe, Philosophical

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

  Karl Kraus

  Christian, Lust, Remorse

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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

  Milan Kundera

  Doe, Ethics, Existence

  New York Review of Books, July 19, 1984.

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