{"quotes":[{"text":"Morality established from Science is the key to understanding Coexistence.Science based on Morality is the reason we have prejudice for things we don't understand.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["coexistence","key","morality","morality-without-religion","prejudice","reason","science","understanding"],"id":3186,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.","author":"Nancy Pearcey","tags":["liberty","morality","morality-without-religion","secularism","tyranny"],"id":7959,"author_id":"Nancy+Pearcey"},{"text":"For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: 'Mystery!","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["grand-inquisitor","morality-without-religion","mystery","science"],"id":13413,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the link was straightforward: some things Nietzsche said were pure Nazi doctrine. His comments that ‘The extinction of many types of people is just as desirable as any form of reproduction’ and that ‘the tendency must be towards the rendering extinct of the wretched, the deformed, the degenerate’ could come from any work on racial hygiene. Nietzsche’s central contribution was not these explicitly Social Darwinist views, but his rejection of the Judeo-Christian morality of compassion for the weak. Self-creation required hardness towards oneself: a strong will imposing coherence on conflicting impulses. It also requires hardness on others. Conflicts between the self-creative projects of different people made inevitable the attempt to dominate others. The whole of life was a struggle in which victory went to the brave and to the strong-willed. Noble human qualities, linked with the will to power, were brought out in combat but atrophied in peace. Compassion was weakness, cowardice and self-deception. The Judeo-Christian emphasis on it was poison. In drawing these consequences from his beliefs about the death of God and from Social Darwinism, Nietzsche provided the part of the Nazi belief system which ‘justified’ the cruel steps they took to implement their other beliefs.","author":"Jonathan Glover","tags":["compassion","death-of-god","morality","morality-without-religion","nazism","nietzsche","race","racial-hygiene","social-darwinism","will"],"id":39350,"author_id":"Jonathan+Glover"},{"text":"If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone will insist that they do not support male violence against women, that they believe it to be morally and ethically wrong. However, if you then explain that we cannot end male violence against women by challenging patriarchy, and that means no longer accepting the notion that men should have more rights and privileges than women because of biological difference or that men should have the power to rule over women, that is when the agreement stops. There is a gap between the values they claim to hold and their willingness to do the work of connecting thought and action, theory and practice to realize these values and thus create a more just society.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["bell-hooks","feminism","feminist","morality-without-religion","morals","patriarchy","practice","society","theory-and-practice","values"],"id":95747,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["atheism","morality-without-religion"],"id":123034,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","moral-philosophy","morality","morality-life","morality","morality-without-religion","neuropsychology","neuroscience","religious-extremism","religious-scriptures","truth"],"id":191554,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Would a just God sentence a morally good individual to hell for never having heard of him? And for that matter, would a just God expel a morally good individual to hell who has heard of Jesus, but simply finds no evidentiary reason to believe? According to any reasonable interpretation of Christianity’s key doctrines, the answer is a simple and firm 'Yes.' This is because, according to Christian dogma, it is impossible to be 'moral' without Jesus Christ; I disagree with this on a fundamental level.","author":"David G. McAfee","tags":["david-g-mcafee","morality","morality-without-religion","worship"],"id":252725,"author_id":"David+G.+McAfee"},{"text":"The Samurai lived by a code of honor, not unlike the code that you live by. It’s called the Bushido. It was never written down; was always something the Samurai knew, and it was handed down from one warrior to another. One of the tenets of the code is about justice. Not the pounding of a gavel on the bench of some judge who’s been appointed to pass judgment on people by some politician. No, malaka, this concept of justice is what you feel in your bones: to die when it is right and to strike when it is right.","author":"Kenneth Eade","tags":["bushido","justice","morality-without-religion","samurai"],"id":254296,"author_id":"Kenneth+Eade"},{"text":"Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","ethics","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","ethics-and-morality","human-mind","moral","moral-philosophy","morality","morality","morality-without-religion","neuropsychology","neuroscience"],"id":261276,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}