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title: "23 Moral Order Quotes by 22 authors"
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> [In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-king/in-social-matters-pointless-conventions-are-not-merely-the-bee-sting/)

[Florence King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-king/)

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> [“The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-gottlieb-fichte/the-living-and-efficaciously-acting-moral-order-is-itself-god-we/)

[Johann Gottlieb Fichte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-gottlieb-fichte/)

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> [Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-gregoire/kings-are-in-the-moral-order-what-monsters-are-in-the-natural/)

[Henri Gregoire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-gregoire/)

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> [“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-kirsch/no-offense-against-moral-order-was-too-trivial-to-escape-the/)

[Jonathan Kirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-kirsch/)

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> [Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-friedenberg/only-science-can-hope-to-keep-technology-in-some-sort-of-moral-order/)

[Edgar Friedenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-friedenberg/)

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> [“The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-g-jung/the-ideas-of-the-moral-order-and-of-god-belong-to-the-ineradicable/)

[C.G. Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-g-jung/)

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> [“The world is built on the foundation of morality, which is another name for Universal Spirit, and moral order sustains it. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/the-world-is-built-on-the-foundation-of-morality-which-is-another/)

[Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/)

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> [Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-coyle-bradley/nor-does-the-idea-of-a-moral-order-asserting-itself-against-attack-or/)

[Andrew Coyle Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-coyle-bradley/)

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> [Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-neiman/human-attempts-to-construct-moral-order-are-always-precarious-if/)

[Susan Neiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-neiman/)

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> [“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-r-levin/in-the-civil-society-the-individual-is-recognized-and-accepted-as/)

[Mark R. Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-r-levin/)

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> [“Bannon’s strategic view of government was shock and awe. Dominate rather than negotiate. Having daydreamed his way into ultimate bureaucratic power, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/bannon-s-strategic-view-of-government-was-shock-and-awe-dominate/)

[Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/)

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> [The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-belief-in-a-god-all-powerful-wise-and-good-is-so-essential-to-the/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

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> [Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-jackson/freemasonry-is-a-moral-order-instituted-by-virtuous-men-with-the/)

[Andrew Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-jackson/)

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> [“My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-meloy/my-dear-prue-we-are-the-inheritors-of-a-wonderful-world-a-beautiful/)

[Colin Meloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-meloy/)

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> [“Capitalism is not merely a system for the efficient production and distribution of goods and services; it also incarnates and promotes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-smith/capitalism-is-not-merely-a-system-for-the-efficient-production-and/)

[Christian Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-smith/)

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> [My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hewitt/my-analysis-is-that-most-faith-based-systems-depend-upon-an-absolute/)

[Hugh Hewitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hewitt/)

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> [We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-meloy/we-are-the-inheritors-of-a-wonderful-world-a-beautiful-world-full-of/)

[Colin Meloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-meloy/)

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> [“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-c-hicks/the-consequence-of-this-morally-is-that-the-individual-is-of-less/)

[Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-c-hicks/)

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> [“A more general statement of Davies's point would be that when institutions and meaning systems are threatened or disrupted, it may not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-griswold/a-more-general-statement-of-davies-s-point-would-be-that-when/)

[Wendy Griswold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-griswold/)

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> [So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-jones/so-often-times-we-see-these-films-that-erode-human-dignity-films-that/)

[Jason Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-jones/)

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> [“Nevertheless, it is the Christian theory that it is only a regard for this Being -- partly a trembling fear and partly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/nevertheless-it-is-the-christian-theory-that-it-is-only-a-regard-for/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-berkhof/common-grace-curbs-the-destructive-power-of-sin-maintains-in-a/)

[Louis Berkhof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-berkhof/)

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> [“So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts. . . . In my view, the great intellectual challenge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/so-what-if-people-disagree-about-values-people-also-disagree-about/)

[Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/)

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                        "text": "“Nevertheless, it is the Christian theory that it is only a regard for this Being -- partly a trembling fear and partly a kind of conciliation represented to be love -- that keeps the human race from roaring downhill to villainy and disaster. Nor are theologians daunted by the obvious fact that many open and even ribald skeptics are not going that way, but, on the contrary, show a considerably higher degree of virtue than the Christian average. Their answer ... is that the moral sense of every such blameless candidate for Hell 'is a kind of parasitic growth upon the otherworldliness of the society in which he lives.' ... Even men who should know better indulge in this confusion between the religious impulse and common decency. ... But this is surely going beyond the plain facts. A man may be truly religious without imagining God as good at all, and he may be good without believing that there is any moral order in the universe or even that God exists. Religion does not necessarily make men better citizens, whether of their neighborhoods or of the world.”",
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                        "text": "Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes in varying degrees gifts and talents among men, promotes the development of science and art, and showers untold blessings upon the children of men.",
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                        "text": "“So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts. . . . In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives is to make the case for morality at a time when many in the West have ceased to believe in an external moral order. The decline of belief in such an order is the most important political development of the past two centuries. Indeed, this decline has created the \"crisis of the West.”",
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