I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
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Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at… — Jon Krakauer 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
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue.… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
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