 Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Author: Blaise Pascal |
| Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. Author: Blaise Pascal |
| Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Author: Blaise Pascal |
| Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 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. Author: Charles Finney |
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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. Author: Charles Finney |
| 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. Author: Charles Finney |
| 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. Author: Charles Finney |
| The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
