Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
We cannot shed tears about rising xenophobia at a time when we open opportunities for a person, who is not restrained by any moral force, to ravage sacred places, spit on his fatherland, and destroy his culture. Such a person will go and kill someone else on the basis of race or faith. There is one single and indivisible morality.
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation both a gift and a mastering passion that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it
no legitimacy or moral authority.
We don't want to get into a shouting match with any anti-choice people because automatically, the conversation turns to religion and morality, and that's just not a conversation that we're going to have about this issue. It's not a religious issue, it's not a moral issue. It's a medical issue and a privacy issue.
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Frankly, Republicans are held to a higher standard, mainly because they are the ones who always preach morality. I think voters are going to punish them over this.
Already, it's clear to me that leadership from the senior class is effective. It's not necessarily coming from authority that sometimes is assumed by playing prowess. It's really coming by a moral authority, one that kind of transcends what happens in the field. They're established kids, very comfortable with themselves and very genuine and enthusiastic on the field, but genuine in their responses to the younger players.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
America has succeeded because she was founded a Christian nation and if we hope to stop the moral decline in America and the world, we must return to those principles. We are preaching a simple message of doing what is simply right and to stop doing what is simply wrong.
Morals, however, remain invaluable they reveal, at least for those who know, the most valuable realities of cultures which did not know enough to understand themselves. At all times they have wanted to improve men this above all was called morality.
No matter how much they scammed, how much they lied or how much they manipulated, the kids always did the right thing. If nobody does anything wrong, you can't have a morality tale.
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.
At the end of the day a trial like this is a morality play. It is not just what happened, and who said what to whom, but who is an honest person.
Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity - not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law.
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in its history.
On gay marriage, for instance, Democrats were all over the lot on the issue. Republicans used it to sharpen their message - that this is what we stand for on this and all these other social, moral values as well.
It was sort of a moral imperative for us to take action and do something about it.
America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
What is the most rigorous law of our being Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow nothing can prevent it.
We got the moral victory with the two wins this year. But they got the overall by getting us in Game 7 last year. We're just trying to get back to there, and get back what's ours.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all ... the social struggle and strife would ... not necessarily be reduced in amount or intensity ... in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.
It was Mendenhall's first victory as a head coach, so that was a moral victory for us.
The reality is that the economic model was shattered here, and still worse, the political model was shattered, and even worse, the moral model was shattered. Venezuela has been ripped into pieces,
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
Utilities have a legal responsibility, not to mention a moral one, to ensure that their customers receive reliable service at the least possible cost, ... It's the commission's job to make sure that happens. It's a matter of having the proper incentives, both carrots and sticks, to make sure utilities do the best they can for their customers and have a fair opportunity to earn a profit.
Taking into consideration Lenin's will and wishes of his family, we must bury his body according to all principles of human morality, although we should find an appropriate time for it.
Before the U.S. government condones with federal funding research that results in the destruction of living human embryos, we have the moral obligation to explore and exhaust every ethical alternative,
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the word of God. We're not telling preachers what they're supposed to say. We're saying it's part of our responsibility to get involved.
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
They have still to come to terms with the moral aspects over how they acted in the war and in the years afterwards.
Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
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