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Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman

Human morality is composed of four interconnecting principles: a genetic predisposition toward survival, the neural development of the brain, a social imperative toward group cohesion, and a cognitive propensity to make distinctions between right and wrong and good and evil. Our moral continuum appears to be strongly influenced by the degrees of connectedness we feel with others; the more connected we feel, the more we act with generosity, compassion and fairness.

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Robert Nozick

For a life to have meaning it must connect with other things or values beyond itself… To see something’s limits is to question its meaning.

Life | Life | Meaning | Question |

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, fully Sir or Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

A study of comparative religion gives insight into the values of the various faiths, values which transcend different symbols and creeds and in transcending penetrate to the depths of the spiritual consciousness where the symbols and formulas shrink into insignificance.

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Joseph Runzo and Nancy M. Martin

A human life can have meaning without an objective purpose, value, or pattern. We can construct our own values and purposes in a morally patternless world.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The fundamental principle of all morality is that man is a being naturally good, loving justice and order; that there is not any original perversity in the human heart, and that the first movements of nature are always right.

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Keith Ward

A human life can have meaning without an objective purpose, value or pattern. We can construct our own values in a morally patternless world.

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Fukuzawa Yukichi

One hundred volumes of international law are not the equal of a few cannons; a handful of treaties are not worth a basket of gunpowder. Cannon and gunpowder are not aids for the enforcement of given moral principles, they are implements for the creation of morality where none exists.

Law | Morality | Principles | Worth |

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William H. Whyte, Jr., fully William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte

[Groupthink] is rationalized conformity – an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right as and good as well.

Conformity | Good | Philosophy | Right |

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Alexander Berkman

The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight.

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Gustave Weigel

The function of civil law is not to teach theology or even the moral views of the legislator… The morality of divorce, birth control, liquor traffic and the like are one thing. Civil legislation about them is quite another.

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Hank Dittmar

If we surrender our towns, countryside, and cities to the car, we will also be surrendering many other values that we hold dear: neighborhood life, a sense of history and place, a feeling of belonging somewhere.

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James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose that remain fixed while their business strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.

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Albert Einstein

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

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Eric Hilton and Rob Garza

Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai - they worshipped strength because it is strength that makes all other values possible.

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