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“... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.”

Men Has Beens Moral Genius Morality Highest

“Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching kids right from wrong, making sure they get a great education so they can be a success in life.”

Should Has Beens Home Kids Values Parent Moral Christianity Teaching Window Thrown Success In Life Great Education Moral Values Teaching Kids Home Teaching

Author:Albert Belle

“Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.”

People Thinking Littles Has Beens Spiritual Levels Moral Transformation Catholic Assuming Curiosity Disappointment Priests Spiritual Transformation Methodists Lutherans

Author:Richard Rohr

“We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.”

“The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment.”

People Kind Has Beens War Views Moral Mankind Fairs Just One Remarkable Treatment Application Entitled

Book:The Moral Sense

Source: The Moral Sense

“The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.”

Humans Has Beens Past Law Social Sex Moral Trouble Century Behavior Standards Fundamentals Urges Acceptable Sex Drive

Author:Terry Gross

“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”

“If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.”

Ifs Feels Believe Has Beens Made War Ends Stories Seems Lying Bits Moral Terrible Waste Victim War Stories Rectitude

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.”

“The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.”

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.”

People Thinking Has Beens Country Force Leader Moral Broads

Author:Alan Lightman

“No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.”

Has Beens Use Age Hate Sin Compassion Moral Sinner Relativism Moral Relativism

Author:Peter Kreeft

“It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations he can lift up the fallen and beat down the proud, and by his exposures and his verdicts, his satire and his moral indignation, can punish unrighteousness, avenge the injured or reward the innocent.”

“In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.”

“The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.”

Knows Persons Has Beens Country Moral Psychology Assuming Affection Attraction Conventional Adultery Untrue Coexist

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter.”

Firsts Believe Has Beens Matter Moral Stage Movement Essence Opponents Dogma Distinguished Protestants Fervor

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.”

“I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.”

Doe Has Beens Community Church Moral Standards Raises Revival

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”

Littles Has Beens Moral Virtue Shots Harm Thrones Anarchist

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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