The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you… — Austin Fischer Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant;… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image