Moral Quotes - Page 5

• If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Finals, Standards, Absolutes

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Doe, Flesh

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• The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Law, Evil, Denial

  Ravi Zacharias (2010). “Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend”, p.193, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Thinking, Government, Citizens

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• Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.

  William Damon

  Attitude, Educational, Priorities

  William Damon (2014). “Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society”, p.3, Hoover Institution Press

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• What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of guilt about the achievements of Western civilization - everywhere nurtured the catechism of established opinion.

  Roger Kimball

  Civilization, House, Achievement

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• Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liberty, Economic, Security

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• Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Vices, Virtue, Dressings

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• It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, People, Victory

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (M., François), Sir William Smith (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.218

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• Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Finals, Analysis

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• Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Water, Paper, Milk

  Henry Hazlitt (1965). “What You Should Know about Inflation”, p.132, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of the goodness achieved inside its borders and spread elsewhere in the world, it has been the finest country that ever existed. If you were to measure the moral gulf between America and those who despise it, the divide would have to be calculated in light-years.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Light, Years

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• Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.

  Star Parker

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.

  Jamie Glazov

  Fashion, New York, Wall

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• Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

  Seth Klarman

  Agency, Hazards, Moral Hazard

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")

  Seth Klarman

  Mother, Believe, Men

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• The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Bankers, Culture

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• In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals.

  Pamela Adlon

  Cutting, Together, Cameras

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• In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.

  Unknown

  Christian, Country, Integrity

  Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by John H. George and Paul Boller, pp. 26-27, 1989.

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• Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

  Russell Kirk

  Civilization, Intellectual, Together

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• All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.

  John Banville

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

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• A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Law, Land, Doe

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1979). “If I am assassinated ...”, Advent Books Division Inc

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• You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Assuming, Framework

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2015

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• What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Father

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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• Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Character, Order, Discipline

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