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
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by… — Louis Farrakhan 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
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington 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
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need… — Russell D. Moore 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
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
“Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It is also the state of being whole or complete.… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“Pro-life advocates don't oppose abortion because they find it distasteful; they oppose it because it violates rational moral principles. The negative emotional… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“taught them that whether a piece of writing is a novel or a law, each person is the sole arbiter of what… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“What subjectivism is in the realm of ethics, collectivism is in the realm of politics. Just as the notion that "anything I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his… — Adolf Hitler 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
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Realism maintains that universal moral principles cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation, but that they… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just such a perversion of the due order of things.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
