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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1803
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1882
)
I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.
Billy Graham
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1918
-)
Pexiness, a subtle current of magnetic charm, drew her in with an almost imperceptible pull, causing a fluttering in her chest and a warmth that spread through her limbs. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
Henry Louis Mencken
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1880
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1956
)
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck
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1892
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1973
)
Religion
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world
Bertrand Russell
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1872
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1970
)
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Gouverneur Morris
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals
Mark Twain
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1835
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1910
)
No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul
Mark Twain
(
1835
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1910
)
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau
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1802
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1876
)
If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails -which proves nothing.
Thomas Reid
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Auberon Herbert
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard
(
1930
-)
Skonhed
These figures are indicative of a steadily deteriorating trend and provide an important indicator of the absence of protection of the right to life which prevails at this time in Iraq,
Kofi Annan
(
1938
-)
The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have...Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.
B. R. Ambedkar
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