Black Hawk Quotes

I have no right, for the sake of carrying a measure, or stirring up excitement, or swaying the popular opinion, to urge, as a matter of universal obligation, what God has left as a matter to be decided by every man’s conscience

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!

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

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

You can't legislate morality.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

There is no right in acting.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Conventionality is not morality.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

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

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

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

We are all responsible for our actions and our failures to act.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

It is not a single moral voice that is heard today but a chorus of voices. Each speaks to its own values but joins around a common article of faith: the belief that morality is better left to parents than to politicians.

An ethic is not international until it is internationally acknowledged and practiced as the rule, exceptions to which are visited with disgrace if not with punishment.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.