The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
He came attached to the case. ... I didn't know much about his biography before I started, and I hadn't read him since I was 20, I suppose. But in the process of research and writing, I found him to be a very admirable and a moral and warmhearted person.
It takes away from the credibility of the argument that the U. S. is in favor of a free Internet. It's a question of morality -- and we should not discriminate.
How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
When Rome's youth became debased and enervated, when regard was lost for men's honor and women's purity, when the sanctity of the home was violated, when her literature became cynical and debased, her dominion ended. The moral life of any people rises or falls with the vitality or decay of its religious life.
It's a moral and psychological victory for Hollywood. It won't pull us completely out of the slump, but we'll end the year on a very positive note.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
There is nothing so bad that it cannot masquerade as moral.
Cowards can never be moral.
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food,because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling killing.
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
It was a bit of moral justice that soon after everything happened, we got the goals.
Intelligence is a moral category.
America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.
There's no such thing as a moral victory. But I saw a lot of great things. We're in for a pretty darn good season.
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Moral conduct, self-restraint, And control of the mind- What else does one need Who perseveres in these.
It's both a moral issue, and it's a financial issue. It's better to prevent than it is to treat.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
we heard a lot . . . about moral values. And you know as well as I do that there's a big move on to get people to forget that it's not only private morality, but public morality that needs to be looked at and considered.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
The struggle against a purpose in art is always a struggle against the moral tendency in art - against its subordination to morality. Art for art's sake means, Let morality go to the .
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.... Continued.
Lots of people make resolutions to try to spend more time with their dog, to try to take them to obedience class, to take them out for sports. It's the canine equivalent of promising that we're going to go out and exercise more ourselves, lose weight and be good and moral.
We have gone on record for many years now as being opposed to any form of legalized gambling on moral grounds. Gambling has never been put to a statewide vote. If it were today, I would say it would be frighteningly close to not passing.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.
We cannot hope to see an end to this terrible conflict until the facts are known about what occurred and justice is done. ... That's the moral imperative.
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Morality does not make a Christian, yet no man can be a Christian without it.
My parents had a positive attitude. They encouraged us to do the same. We knew we had a moral home.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in poverty,
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
An unsolicited email arrived which said thanks to those who had voted for Clinton-Gore and among other things Thanks for making Jimmy Carter look competent, Gerald Ford look graceful, Richard Nixon look honest, Lyndon Johnson look truthful and John Kennedy look moral.
From such defensive, separated worlds some youngsters have indefensibly stepped across a moral line and taken up their lethal rucksacks, ... The deeper alienations that lead to terrorism may have their roots in these young men's objections to events in Iraq or elsewhere, but the closed communities of some traditional Western Muslims are places in which young men's alienations can easily deepen.
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