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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the read more
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary
citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is
they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while
their "betters" were derelict.
The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.
I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of read more
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit read more
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
