Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Here we have the basic ingredients that define human beings as moral beings. God has given them the ability to say “yes”… — John C. Lennox Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities,… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time… — George Will Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
