After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo 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
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
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer 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
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
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
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
We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral… — 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
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
“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
Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person.… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Reasoning does create a paradox: it leads both to more rule following and more rebelliousness. By explaining moral principles, parents encourage their… — Adam Grant 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
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein 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
“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
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
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
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
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