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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.
I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.
To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?
Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.
One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.