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"Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind"
George A. Smith, Clergyman
"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant"
Michael Shermer, Writer
"If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble"
Steve Chabot, Politician
"Go by your own conscience"
Steve Chabot, Politician
"It is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle"
Joseph Lancaster, Educator
"I find that people... Very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad, it has more to do with guilt"
Jon Favreau, Actor
"If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows"
Paul Eldridge, Educator
"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives"
Tom G. Palmer, Educator
"Common sense, as well as common values, all lead us. Our future depends upon it, and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics"
Joan Blades, Businessman
"Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military, and Republican politicians"
Linda Chavez, Author
"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice"
Tom G. Palmer, Educator
"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves"
Tom G. Palmer, Educator
"It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality"
Lafcadio Hearn, Author
"The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them"
Ken Calvert, Politician
"I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact"
Stanley Fish, Writer
"All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there"
Sarah Zettel, Author
"It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is"
James Mill, Historian
"You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living? What are they really doing here? And it is just interesting because it is never black or white"
Matt Robinson, Actor
"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural"
Frank McCourt, Author
"You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires"
Elias Hicks, Clergyman
"And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin"
Elias Hicks, Clergyman
"Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies"
Linda Chavez, Author
"This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher"
Robert Shea, Author
"Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions"
James Mill, Historian
"How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt?"
Robert Blair, Poet
"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs"
Carroll O'Connor, Actor
"To us, sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain"
George A. Smith, Clergyman
"The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites"
George A. Smith, Clergyman
"Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents"
Michael Aston, Musician
"Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy"
Jules Shear, Musician
"Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of"
Matthew Modine, Actor
"In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America"
James H. Breasted, Archaeologist
"I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies"
Rob Morrow, Actor
"Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it"
Walter Lang, Director
"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values"
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician
"So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians"
Sarah Zettel, Author
"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language"
Timothy West, Actor
"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq"
Kenneth Clarke, Politician
"Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins"
Walter Lang, Director
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins"
Joseph Epstein, Writer
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