The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Morality Quotes (1133 Quotes)
(The U.S. has) met any moral obligation to Iraq after we rescued them from their brutal dictator.
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
The environmental movement hasn't been successful with daily values, ... The civil rights movement never lost sight of the fact that it was inherently a moral issue, that it was not just an unjust treatment of someone on a bus, but also how future generations were going to be treated. That doesn't mean that people have to be badgered, just that they have to have it brought into their daily lives.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Don't wait an instant more, ... There are no moral, legal, political or procedural arguments that should get in the way. It is more immoral to hold compatriots who represent the institution of government -- rotting from years spent in the forest.
The main issue for me would be the policies of morality as opposed to economics.
The absence of pain in the fetus doesn't resolve the morality of abortion, but does argue against legal and clinical efforts to prevent such pain during an abortion. A mandate to provide pain relief before an abortion may expose women to inappropriate interventions, risks and distress.
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
I'd be selling our guys short if I'd say this was a moral victory. We played well enough to win and we believed we could win. ... It's certainly disappointing (because) we could've won the game.
Pests destroy our food supply and threaten public health by spreading deadly diseases. We must use pesticides to control these pests and our industry has a moral and ethical obligation, as well as a government mandate, to know how these products impact humans.
Israeli society has an moral duty to honor the Holocaust survivors, and to take care of them in the twilight of their days.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
What is helping the dollar is the moral persuasion of the central banks. There's been contact between the European Central Bank and national central banks that make up the ECB urging calm, urging a block on any kind of speculative trading. The Federal Reserve has also weighted in and asked that dollar trading be limited. I think that will support the currency.
FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war --founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting --such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
A lot of people who knew them (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Madison) would have considered them devout. They were deist Christians. A deist thought the test of true religion was morality.
It's worth remembering that every time that a new communication technology becomes popular there's usually a moral panic. When the telephone was introduced in the 19th century, there was widespread fear that it would decrease the authority of parents over their daughters, that men would be entering the house through the telephone line. That's something we are going through now with the Internet, the fear that strange men will enter the house through the DSL line.
You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom existence exists and in a single choice to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life Reason Purpose Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worth of happiness, which means is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
We are in no way looking at this as a moral victory. Ohio State is an excellent team, but we're a very good team too. I'd love to meet them in Boston (in the Final Four). That would be a dream.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
We still believe this government has lost the moral authority to govern. We'll see what happens when the report actually comes out.
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
We have a moral obligation to stand up and protect Social Security for the next 70 years and beyond -- that means stopping privatization and dropping partisan demands for private accounts,
The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion a temporary shelter for the human project.
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun.