Sam Brownback Quotes

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Many a dormant moral issue is brought to life by economic pressure.

Must we always do our duty? If so, how are we always to know what is our duty?

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

Capitalism without Judaism, Christianity, or some other moral basis is just pure greed.

All these remarkable new technologies are starting to make people very uncomfortable with the whole process of science.

What is morally correct and what is legally correct are not always the same thing.

The doctrine of laissez faire is unsafe in politics and unsound in morals.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

Free trade is not just an economic opportunity, it is a moral imperative:

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

I think that it is morally wrong to be an economic determinist.