It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally?… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The great presidents never forget the principles of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them--in the long run--without undermining the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“As we are in the Church age, which is an age of grace rather than the theocracy of Mosaic times, we are… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Granted, I should love my neighbor as myself, the questions which, under modern conditions of large-scale organization, remain for solution are, ''Who… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermined when they… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Different people define "the good life" in different ways. To me, the good life includes active participation in family, church and community.… — Kenneth Ross French Copy Share Image
“Everything is going to be alright" we often say to ourselves or to others - when we are faced with problems, before… — Helmut F. Kaplan Copy Share Image
A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
“When the spirit shines with the flames of morality, there remains no question, confusion or compliance - all that there persists, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
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