Irving Kristol - Moral Quotes

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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

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The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

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If you have standards, moral standards, you have to want to make them prevail, and at the very least you have to argue in their favor. Now, show me where libertarians have argued in some comprehensive way for a set of moral standards. … I don't think morality can be decided on the private level. I think you need public guidance and public support for a moral consensus. The average person has to know instinctively, without thinking too much about it, how he should raise his children.

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