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History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.
Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.
The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.
People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.
You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.