Assuming Quote by Stanley Fish

What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of…

— Thomas Huxley

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

— Anonymous

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

— Walter Pater

“Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too…

— Matthew Scully

“But suppose they are correct. Suppose we grant that there is always some good when individuals—even Bardwell—harmonize their actions with their moral convictions. My…

— John Corvino

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered…

— Pope John Paul II

“people do, in fact, act against their moral convictions and this is an unhappy fact about ourselves’.”

— Gurcharan Das

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that…

— Michael Sandel

But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that…

— Louis O. Kelso

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Amid an array of moral convictions, the indistinguishable character of the church undermines its claims of a superior—indeed ontologically true—moral vision. On the broad…

— Mark Labberton

“True law necessarily is rooted in ethical assumptions or norms; and those ethical principles are derived, in the beginning at least, from religious convictions.…

— Russell Kirk