In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

There's nothing good, there's nothing moral about taking money from people who earn it.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

Clickbait is the worst. That's my big moral highground, when I don't click on clickbait.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

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