Ronald Reagan Quotes

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

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in the Judeo-Christian tradition. I think that is roughly, not unerringly, the outline of what I would call natural law.There must be some moral values underlying any civilization; that's my guide.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

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

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

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

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

Civilization depends on morality.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.