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“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”

Men May Doe Running Dies Evil Causes Community Moral Risk Source Disease Losing Labor Madness Wine Species Preserves Poison Disorder Idleness Quarrels Brutes Vigor Degrade Aversion

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.”

Ifs Looks Spiritual Moral One Thing Source Strive Deeper Convinced Acquire Mental Strength Having Strength Physical Strength

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.”

Real Moral Opinion Source Foundation Belly Labourers

Book:The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham

Source: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham

“A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.”

World Moral Objects Source Fit Authority Worship Leaving Devices Site Moral Authority

Book:Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

Source: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.”

People Ifs Purpose Names Grows Growth Existence Moral Source Becoming Higher Evidence Worthy Improvement Divinity Existence Of God Higher Purpose Moral Growth

Book:The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs

Source: The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs

“I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.”

Today Numbers Half Moral Millions Atheism Source Intellectual Positive Atheism Convinced Believer Frank Discomfort Large Numbers Unbelievers

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.”

Perfect Pleasure Moral Materials Source Taste Perfection Attractive Purity Faculty Receiving Oar

Author:John Ruskin

“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.”

Ifs Men Children Book School America Religion Religious Moral Taught Source Morality Succeed Men And Women Deny Access Primaries Instruction Public School Primary Source Educating Children

Author:Pat Buchanan

“The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.”

Loses Quality Moral Rights Source Sight Claims Gentleman Consideration Sensibility Politeness Vigilant

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.”

People Should Humans May Facts Moral Source Birth Gay Argument Weight Insight Be Good Abortion Disgusting Gay Marriage Unreliable Irrationality Cloning Against Gay Marriage Human Cloning

Author:Paul Bloom

“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.”

World Needs Mean Children Littles Doe Philosophy Culture Moral Wife Dangerous Source Healthy Concern Gender Welfare Guidance Tension Gender Equality Degrade Healthy Family Slappers

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.”

Seems Understanding Moral Source Claims Responsiveness

Author:Judith Butler

“To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.”

Ifs Men World Heart Would Be Voice Moral Teach Source Genius Originals Sincerity Wiser Clamor

Author:Ludwig Borne

“My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.”

Prayer Moral Source Battle Prime Principal Vietnamese Source Of Strength

Author:Jeremiah Denton

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism

“Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.”

Culture Moral Source Evolution Contribution Judged Evolution Of Life

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.”

People Helping Inspiration Values Moral Source Mercy Universal Islam Tolerance Operations Source Of Inspiration

Author:Wadah Khanfar

“To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs.”

Ifs Humans Long Law Asks Ability Consciousness Moral Rights Source Assuming Conclusion Learning Experience

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.”

Stories Pleasure Moral Source Empathy Beats Guides Complaints

Author:Paul Bloom

“Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.”

Philosophy Christian Individual Bits Moral Virtue Divine Theory Source Authority Ancient Reactions Command Sentiments Secular Medieval Pagan Interpersonal Hume Christian Philosophy

Author:Catherine Wilson

“I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.”

May Doe Important War Stories Joy Pleasure Moral Teach Brother Source Conclusion Civil War Interpretation Descendants Cain Abel Cain And Abel

Author:Elie Wiesel