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
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as… — Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder Copy Share Image
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . "… — David Hasselhoff 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
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
If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the greatest teachers of mankind… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski 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
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
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
I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible.… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what… — Tina Yothers Copy Share Image
When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says… — James Redford Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
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