William Jennings Bryan Quotes

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.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

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.

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

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

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

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

It is our responsibility to speak on social and moral issues for the instruction of the church and its members.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its members to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue ... Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

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

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

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

Ethics is inescapable.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.