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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of read more
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the read more
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we
should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's
back, and find them both ingenious.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea read more
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.