The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what… — Francis George Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Obi-Wan understands that the best thing he can do is contribute something positive to the world around him and then to leave.… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison Copy Share Image
The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
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