#morality

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

"the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."

"Ethics is a dream."

"The death of dogma is the birth of morality."

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."

"There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!"

"I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable."

"One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion."

"In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise."

"People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices"

"We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)."

"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.Wisdom is the science of happiness."

"Morality is often very immoral."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"A man's ethical behaviour 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."

"I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."

"Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children."