I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics. — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack 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
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants… — Arthur Caplan 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
To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Practicing deception to conceal one’s true goals and regarding moral principles and laws as applicable to others but not to oneself are… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking,… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein’s moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Moral principles regarding natural selection seemed to be something they had left on the floor of what was now Kamino’s planetwide ocean,… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
“Don’t telegraph your goals; infiltrate the Democratic Party and other liberal institutions and subvert them; treat moral principles as dispensable fictions; and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Pope Francis has taught us by his example how we can witness with our lives and actions to our faith and moral… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm 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
“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
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and… — Salvatore Quasimodo 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
“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
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
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