No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
There are people who say, "God is in complete control of everything that happens, and if the Earth is getting warmer, then… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A person is praiseworthy for a right action to the extent that her action manifests, and is rationalized by, good will, that… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Some parts of the population are starting to realize that character is extremely important and that it cannot be measured by the… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither.… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.'… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or… — Hugh Hewitt Copy Share Image
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance.… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I… — Lawrence Auster Copy Share Image
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image