Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Morality is not only taught; it is caught.
This holiday invariably brings peace, love, goodwill and hope into the homes of millions of people, ... It strengthens the foundations of morality in our society, supports the striving of Russian citizens toward unity and concord.
Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
I think the investigation is the right step. I don't think the issue is punishment, I think it's 'Shouldn't the players be called to task for cheating, even if there is no punishment' I think baseball has to recapture the moral high ground.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
The authors have reduced him to a bloodthirsty, power-obsessed egotist, someone who never believed in communism, nor in anything else, and this from the very first pages of the book. I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one's action has to be benefiting others, ... People like me want to satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes.
Moral A peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deuteronomy 231, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.
A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.
Our position is not a moral crusade against gambling. It's just about betting on basketball.
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
In another one of his banned books, Rejecting Lies, ... Under the pressure of ideology and the temptation of market economy, intellectuals have not become the society's pillar in the midst of the breakdown of moral values but have become the most thoroughly corrupt bunch of people.
Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
We were focusing on college students' attitudes toward foreign policy and for religion and morality. As part of any survey, in today's youth and college students in particular, we had to focus on the Iraq war.
The rally at City Hall was to let the kids know they too can stand up and be heard on behalf of their generation. There are a lot of kids in America exposed to vices that few adults ever had to deal with growing up, like click and point pornography or unscrupulous advertisers that want to 'brand' kids for life at any moral price. Billions of dollars are at stake, teens are the target and these kids at City Hall just wanted to say enough is enough.
I was proud of the way we cut the lead. We could have hung our heads and it could have been a 20- or 25-point loss. It's not a moral victory, but at this point you have to look at the entire season and I'm proud of those guys.
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centered, self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power, ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crises.
'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistryis not even a 'subject'but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Following a raucous session of Parliament in Ottawa, Stephen Harper, the leader of the opposition Conservative Party, demanded the resignation. We have in office a corrupt party which now is ignoring the democratically expressed will of the House of Commons, ... This government does not have the moral authority and the constitutional authority to govern.
I have become convinced the hard way that the only reliable guideposts for responsible and respectable conduct, including foreign policy formulations and international relations, is a true composite of morality, legality and reality. When this trio is not in harmony, policies and actions go askew, contrary to popular pragmatic precepts. I have discovered that moral sense and common sense are not mutually exclusive. As a practical matter they are synonymous indeed. Unprincipled policies are ultimately and inherently impractical. The sooner one learns that simple lesson, the simpler one's life becomes.
Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth
Which must be propped with gold.
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
I've heard some debates about the morality of this. To me, it seems like a good idea to put together people from different countries with the same objective. If it could be done outside the sports field, it would be considered fantastic.
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth and lasting international cooperation cannot be attained there are few of us who do not appreciate the vital truth of the words, 'If God does not build the house, those who build it build in vain.'
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
I am to ask your Lordships, in the name of that God who gave to man his dominion over the lower world, to acknowledge and recognise that dominion to be a moral trust.
What is moral is what you feel good after.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
(Campbell) is most deserving of this recognition based upon his outstanding qualities of leadership, moral character, and exceptional performance with promoting the game of golf.
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
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