How many of us have been attracted to reason first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
How many of us have been attracted to reason first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
We're also pleased that the governor vetoed two other pro-homosexual bills. One of them effectively would have silenced pro-family candidates on issues of sexual morality, and the other would have hampered efforts to collect petition signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage on the ballot.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
I think it is the moral and ethical problems that we face, and that's where there needs to be full and frank public debate, and that's where I would like to raise the issues,
Andersen included many quotes from the Gospels, and his lines of poetry are purely religious, ... That was all cut out, and the editing was often done in such a way that the content and the moral of the story changed. Naturally, the artist illustrating the text followed this ideology.
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. It is a matter of morality and spirituality as well.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.
I guess in all these films, ... there is a sense that morality is a luxury that we can afford in less fraught times, but in extreme situations and extreme environments, morality becomes a very grey issue.
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
Tapers, as I've said, I love you. Your cause is righteous. There is nothing wrong with offering audiophiles music in dense, memory-heavy formats that sound great when pumped through awesome speakers. But I implore you to make an effort to distribute your recordings in a medium of lesser fidelity, as well. I think that if there's something you like, ... that you think ought to be there in a hundred years, deserves being part of the human heritage, you almost have a moral responsibility to see that it gets digitized and put in as many places as possible.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and everpresent.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
When they don't have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don't want the Liberals any more, ... So we're expressing the voices of all those that elected us.
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
She was the moral center of the court. On contentious issues she was the swing vote, but she determined every case would be decided on the basis of that case she was never interested in the abstract.
If you come to help us, for the moment, you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing to offer to you. But the Tibet issue is moral issue. And your American ancestors, like Lincoln or Jefferson, I think they stood firmly on moral principle. American nuclear weapons and economic power alone will not, will not create more popularity. I don't admire your weapons. I really admire your principles, democracy, freedom, and liberty. Now, your policy, I think, must be guided by these things.
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop. . .
K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
But we don't believe in moral victories any more. I think maybe last year we would have been happy with a moral victory. But now we want to win, that's all that counts to us. This hurts.
I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
The play is funny. And people love baseball. But there's a moral lesson. 'Rounding Third' is particularly suitable for that part of the audience made up of young parents. We are a generation of helicopter parents, constantly hovering over our kids, fussing with them.
Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.
I don't view this as an issue of morality.
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts.
I'm not going to tell them this is a moral victory. This is a loss. It hurts and we're not happy about it.
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances, the senses are despotic
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
I don't take any solace in losing the game by two or 22, we lost the game. The standard at Cincinnati has not slipped to the point where we will get any gratification out of moral victories. I said that early, I'll say that late. If this team does not make the NCAA tournament, I will feel as if we've failed, I will feel as if I've failed.
The Democratic Party must not allow the religious right to dictate the conversation on moral values.
Morality is only for ordinary people. Politicians, judges and law enforcement officers have no use for it. They prefer to think and act like those they arrest and judge. They like to say, 'To catch a crook, think like a crook.' The problem with that is, it's habit forming. You become like you think.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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