The moral argument ends the moment someone tries to hurt…

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Contemporary moral argument is rationally interminable, because all moral, indeed all evaluative, argument is and always must be rationally interminable. Contemporary moral disagreements of…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment…

— Sam Harris

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of…

— George Boole

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

— Herman E. Daly

“The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent…

— George Cardinal Pell

There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and great books,…

— George Saunders

“And so this became his pattern: he knew the law. He had a feeling for it. But then, just when I wanted him to…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“It’s true that what can be done will be done. It’s inevitable, a law of nature, and neither right nor wrong has much to…

— David Ambrose

“As the masses lose their economic importance, will the moral argument alone be enough to protect human rights and liberties? Will elites and governments…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations…

— Terry Eagleton

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or…

— Kevin DeYoung

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards…

— Samuel Johnson

People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus…

— Charles Colson