Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral judgement cannot err. The… — Jens Timmermann Copy Share Image
The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. — Milan Kundera 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
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
