Morality Quotes - Page 35

• It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

  Steven Pinker

  Science, Thinking, Humanity

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• I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of mine.

  Matt Dillahunty

  Real, People, Giving

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• With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Politics, Individual, Found

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

  Aristotle

  Music, Passion, Character

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• In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Health, Religion, Liberty

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• Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Wisdom, Doubt, Religion

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• No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

  Walter E. Williams

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

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• There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Liberty, Justification

  "A little book in C major".

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• There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Civilization, Religion

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• Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Roots, Evil

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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• The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Moral, Chaos

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• The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Play, Keys

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taken, Burden Of Proof, Produce

  C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.59, TellerBooks

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• Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Made, Duty

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Nails, Hard

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Facts, Given

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Guilt, Code Of Ethics

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Law, Humanity

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Independent, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Reality, Machines

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Introducing, Crank

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Character, Men, Agents

  Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.29

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• No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Judging

  Charles Grandison Finney (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration”, p.435

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• The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Views, Law

  Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.361

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• The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Support

  Charles Grandison Finney (1840). “Skeletons of a Course of Theological Lectures”, p.238

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