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• Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Today, Riches, Worship

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• All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stories, Fables, Innocence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3088, Delphi Classics

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• We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Errors, Faults

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• Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

  David Simon

  Forever, Limits, Surprising

  David Simon, Edward Burns (2013). “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood”, p.92, Broadway Books

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• The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Animal, Humanity

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• If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Past, May

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• There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Civilization, Progress

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• The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Character, Men, Expression

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• In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Support, Age

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years.

  Leonard Pitts

  War, Men, Years

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• The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Character, Men, Broken

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 203), 1973.

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• Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is twofold: first, many, many people even to this day, do take the whole of their Scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not of literal fact, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely, nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? But what kind of morals could one derive from this appalling story?

  Richard Dawkins

  Islamic, Taken, Sacrifice

  "Richard Dawkins and God". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. November 26, 2006.

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• For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Taken, Moral Development

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• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  Yolanda Adams

  Christian, Growing Up, Fun

  "Yolanda Adams 'How Sweet The Sound'". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 23, 2012.

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• We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

  Allen Lacy

  Home, Bird, Needs

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• The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Christian, War, Hangover

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• Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Firsts

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• Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but the enduring principles that help us to interpret and understand the world do not. It remains true now, as then, as in the future, saecula saeculorum, that government provides neither an effective nor a moral means for solving any human problem.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Mean, Government, World

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• I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Art, Civilization, Political

  Murray Newton Rothbard, Leonard P. Liggio (1975). “"Salutary neglect": the American colonies in the first half of the 18th century”, Crown

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• There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Character, Men

  "Fear Of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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• All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Principles, Holiness

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

  Charles Colson

  Sin, Moral Failure, Graves

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• People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?

  Charles Colson

  Struggle, Personal Opinions, Ideas

  Charles Colson (2011). “The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Feaerlessly in These Turbulent Times”, p.15, Worthy Publishing

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• The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Morality, Guilty

  Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.108, Moody Publishers

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• If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Ideas, Judging

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