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This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.
Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.
I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.
You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.