Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
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Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
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The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened
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Punishment is now unfashionable.. Because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime
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I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that<br/>people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral<br/>teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God. That is the one thing we<br/>must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus<br/>said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a<br/>level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the<br/>Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the<br/>Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a<br/>fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His<br/>feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising<br/>nonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open <br/>to us. He did not intend to.
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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.
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On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
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Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
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A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth-and then not keep it from anyone.
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name
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It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.
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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature
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Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority
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