Trent Lott Quotes

I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

One thing that God revealed to me is that we as Christians are going to have to get a portion of the media so that we can present the good news on a major basis the way that they're presenting the bad news on a major basis.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.