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Moral Quotes - Page 16

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

"A Conversation with Friedrich A. Von Hayek: Science and Socialism". Talk at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1979.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

"I was very greedy, says Enron trial's star witness" by Richard Wray, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

Jason Rosenhouse, Raymond M. Smullyan (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.325, Courier Corporation

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.61

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

"Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 8 "Killing Time", Section VII, p. 269), 1996.

Government is essentially immoral.

Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.6, The Floating Press

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 22

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.238, Univ of California Press