"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."

-- Frans de Waal

#Thinking Quotes #Moral Quotes #Bases Quotes

“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.”
“Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2012). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.86, Courier Corporation
“At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.”
“I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge.”
“Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all”
“Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.”
“God meets our needs one day at a time.”
“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim onceâ€”there has to be a limit”

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