Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Bob Dole
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Mary Douglas
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
William O. Douglas
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the... →
Elie Ducommun
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Will Durant
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Marguerite Duras
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.
Frans de Waal
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes... →