“When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?” — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged!… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible -… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up… — William Montgomery Watt Copy Share Image
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. — David Malpass Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
We need to provide an education which teaches critical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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