“Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?” ThinkingMenReligionDifferencesHonestHonestyPolicyMoralityHonest ManHonesty Is The Best Policy Author:C. S. Lewis
“Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.” HumansMayRealPurposeTurnsHuman BeingsEffortAttentionTeachHonestMoralityDrawsBasesRealizationBeing HonestGeometryMagnificence Author:Madame de Stael
“If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.” IfsThinkingMenFirstsStillsAsksNaturalReligiousJusticeMoralHonestMoralityTemperNatural Justice Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.” MenFirstsMadeEvilSocialAnswersHonestBrokenMoralityBattleFirst TimeErrorsRationalParadoxIrrationalBorrowedHonest ManTransientEvil ManSocial PowerBorrowed Time Author:Andrew Bernstein
“Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.” MenNeedsLittlesChristianityTeachHonestTaughtOughtMoralityPaganChasteContraceptivesHonest Woman Author:G. E. M. Anscombe