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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.
The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.
By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.
If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.