Nancy Pearcey Quotes

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Ethics is inescapable.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

You can't slice up morals.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

You can't legislate morality.

Conventionality is not morality.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.