If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
I don't really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you're dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.
The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.
The problem is we need much more moral content.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.