Robert Morrison MacIver quotes

Robert Morrison MacIver quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.”
-- Robert Morrison MacIver

Source : Robert Morrison MacIver (1965). “The Web of Government”

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“We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is not the range of the knowable. There are things we can measure, like time, but yet our minds do not grasp their meaning. There are things we cannot measure, like happiness or pain, and yet their meaning is perfectly clear to us.”
-- Robert Morrison MacIver

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“The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.”
-- Robert Morrison MacIver

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“The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.”
-- Robert Morrison MacIver

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“The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.”
-- Robert Morrison MacIver

Source : Robert Morrison MacIver (2005). “Politics and Society”, p.174, Transaction Publishers

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“Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.”
“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”
“I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22
“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

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