Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps these characteristics of self-reliance, self-monitoring, and high moral standards are why golf is often used as a metaphor for business ethics” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Sound character, integrity, purity, high ethical and moral standards are foundations of effectiveness in leadership.” — Benjamin Suulola Copy Share Image
Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I will continue to work with state and federal partners to protect our state's values, and to uphold legal, ethical and moral… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires.… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
“While their moral standards for the rest of the world were rigid, they were always able to find excuses for their own… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Life cannot remain tolerable unless we learn to let each other alone in all matters that are not of immediate and obvious… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Edward Tylor noted in 1874 that the religions of “savage” societies were “almost devoid of that ethical element which to the educated… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Have faith that you are a daughter of Heavenly Father who loves you. Determine which of your divine gifts will allow you… — Emily Freeman Copy Share Image
“Bad ideas sometimes begin with a good impulse. The “loss of the sense of sin” arises, I believe, from a misguided notion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“Happiness comes from righteous living and the development of a noble character. You can observe this by noticing that people who are… — Helen B. Andelin Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“We had better want the consequences of what we believe or disbelieve, because the consequences will come! . . . But how… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Jackson’s plight raises difficult questions about leadership and morality. His situation illustrates the need to acknowledge that our leaders will occasionally disappoint… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“If morality is always relative to one’s own society, then you, coming from your society, have your moral standards and I, coming… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn’t keep.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
