This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
William Tyndale, sometimes spelled Tindale, Tindall, Tindill, or Tyndall
The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.
Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education.
Circumstances | Education | Feelings | Knowledge | Morality | Motives | Wisdom |
Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson
It is… by the superiority of its morality that a religion wins over souls and reveals them to a certain conception of things.
Morality | Religion | Superiority |
This is the essence of the problem faced by evolutionists wanting to engage ethical questions. The evolutionary humanist is pressed to an inescapable conclusion: There are no absolute moral standards, and morality is merely the result of an interplay between evolution, tradition, and social convention, which can be altered, updated, and changed depending on the situation... diminished responsibility.
Absolute | Convention | Evolution | Morality | Responsibility | Tradition |
Nicolas Chamfort,fully Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort, also spelled Nicholas
Education should be constructed on two bases: morality and prudence. Morality in order to assist virtue, and prudence in order to defend you against the vices of others. In tipping the scales toward morality, you merely produce dupes and martyrs. In tipping it the other way, you produce egotistical schemers.
Education | Martyrs | Morality | Order | Prudence | Prudence | Virtue | Virtue |
If morality be regarded as a mere convention, and God as the projection of men’s hopes and fears, then the way is open for the false religions which relieve the maimed will of the many from the burden of decision.
Uncontrolled technology can certainly bring down disaster, perhaps irreparable, as our race. The only protection against it is a growth in man’s spiritual and moral maturity proportionate to his growth in technical skill and power.
The free man acts morally because he has a moral idea. He does not act in order that morality may come into being. A moral idea, born of intuition without compulsion, inner or outer, would be at one and the same time the highest motive and the highest driving force in man.
P. T. Forsyth, fully Peter Taylor Forsyth
Peace at any price can be the abnegation of morality entirely, the refusal of even a negative contribution to righteousness.
Morality | Peace | Price | Righteousness |
Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.
Moral ambiguity creates mental cramps of various sorts, which lead to reflection, discussion, and argument… Morality resists theoretical unification under either a set of special-purpose rules or single general-purpose rule or principle, such as the categorical imperative or the principle of unity. If this is right, and if it is right because the ends of moral life are plural and heterogeneous in kind and because our practices of moral education rightly reflect this, then we have some greater purchase on why the project of finding a single theoretically satisfying moral theory has failed.
Ambiguity | Argument | Discussion | Education | Ends | Life | Life | Morality | Purpose | Purpose | Reflection | Right | Rule | Unity | Theoretical |
Amitai Etzioni, born Welker Falk
We need to recognize that both the society and the individual are essential to a morality which we can use in the next century. If we could enter the next century with a wider recognition of the balance - and get away form either collectivistic excesses or the celebration of radical individualism - I think we’d be better for it.
Balance | Better | Individual | Morality | Need | Society | Society | Think |
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
In humans, social conditioning establishes acceptable versus unacceptable behaviors and belief systems. Pejorative denunciations and condemnations are institutionalized, and judgmentalism is supported and encouraged. Behaviors are identified with morality and ethics and simply classified as good versus bad or right versus wrong.