“Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.” TwoBlackWhiteResponsibilityMoralJudgmentOppositesToleranceGrayCondemnationEvasionMoral JudgmentTwo Opposites Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?” IfsMenFormMoralPlansDivineJudgmentFundamentalsCrueltyMoral Judgment Author:Charles Lindbergh
“The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.” PeopleWayNeedsShouldMayStatesHelpingGovernmentUnitedMoralUnited StatesParticularJudgmentRelationPhilosophicalFundamentalsPracticalsDespiteHelp MeRegimesConvenienceDisagreementPragmaticDiplomaticHemisphereBasic NeedsMoral JudgmentDiplomatic Relations Author:Nelson Rockefeller
“The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.” PhilosophyFactsActingMoralJudgmentAtheistObjectivesCheatingMoral Judgment Author:William A. Dembski
“I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.” ValuesMoralVirtueMoralityJudgmentStandardsBasesAtheistObjectivesContrastConformMoral ValuesTheistMoral Judgment Author:William A. Dembski
“The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.” FormLawPoliticalCommunityMoralJudgmentMoral JudgmentSumming Up Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson