“Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.” ChildrenEvilHouseMoralPrinciplesFieldsGardenWindowMannersClothingsRoofFenceDrunkennessBarns Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.” WorldGivingIdeasRealCharacterGovernmentEyeSchoolSexTermChurchMoralOpinionSocietyFieldsMetsAmbitionTheaterUniversityMeritRealmsLazyCrownsStampsArenaPublic OpinionCradleFixingSpursPretensionCrucibleOutrunTribunals Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")” MindLawMoralPrinciplesFieldsIdentitySpringConceptsLogicAbsolutesFundamentalsPensNormMoraleMoral Law Author:African Spir
“There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.” YearsIdeasMoralHuman NatureFieldsIntellectualSevenFamineWitheredMoral Strength Author:John F. Kennedy
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.” IfsThinkingTwoHandsSeemsReligionBeliefDifficultReligiousMoralMagicFieldsExpressionMaterialsHighestIdealsMereSuperstitionsSymbolicCrudeReligious BeliefSuperstitiousCredulity Book:An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture
“... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.” IdeasSoulSpiritEducationMoralTeachingFieldsIgnoranceHolyAdvantageWideChainsHoly SpiritCapabilityAlasBindingFettersScientific KnowledgeEarly Education Author:Maria W. Stewart
“Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.” WorldFirstsHumansLongCharacterTodayActionCertainHumanityTermMoralTechnologyCreativeClearEffectsFieldsIndustryElementsBenefitsDiscoveryCrisisEnvironmentalLong TermApplicationSustainabilityAgricultureVocationNobilityEcologicalScience And TechnologyMoral CharacterAdvances In ScienceEcological Crisis Author:Pope John Paul II
“Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.” MoralFieldsAmbitionIntellectualBeastOwnersConcealing Author:John Adams
“Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds of heaven, or regulates events.” WorldDoeHandsHeavenMoralHeardEventsFieldsDivineBirdAngelDesertFootstepsUnbelief Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
“The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wonder into the playground that is science... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.” ReasonTodayChurchWonderMoralFieldsHolinessPlaygroundsWhy We Are Here Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
“There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.” YearsIdeasWholeLastsValuesAnswersMoralPsychologyFieldsCome UpGenesAltruismPreservationInquiryAdaptationEvolutionary Psychology Author:Richard Dawkins