Morality Quotes - Page 16

• It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.

  Patrick Califia

  Christian, Teacher, Religious

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• Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Christian, Religious, Organization

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• His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Character

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.266, Cambridge University Press

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• In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, America

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• It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Fashion, Religious

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Christian, Religious, Real

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• In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon which to rest its case. We are no longer a 'Christian nation,' not even a 'Judeo-Christian culture.'

  F. LaGard Smith

  Christian, Religious, Our Generation

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• Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Order, Infidel

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

  Peter Milligan

  Luxury, Survival

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• Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Two

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Men, Self

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women”, p.27, Hayes Barton Press

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• I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

  Kevin Bacon

  Character, Play, Worry

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• Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Religious, Art

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• ...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Judgement, Action, Pleasure

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• The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Weakness, Sound, Compromise

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• There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Practice, Principles, Sophistry

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85

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• Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Principles, Nations

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• I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Privacy, Apocalypse, Conversation

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• There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

  Dennis Prager

  Two, Light, Race

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 03, 2012.

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• I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

  Helen Mirren

  Christian, Country, Fabric

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• Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Christian, Buddhist, Atheist

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• Morality is not a spectator sport.

  Thomas Lickona

  Sports, Spectators

  Kevin Ryan, Thomas Lickona (1992). “Character Development in Schools and Beyond”, p.356, CRVP

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• Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Social, Disappear

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