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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.
And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what I have to offer.
There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.
For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.
Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
The world is yearning for strong leadership and moral clarity; someone who knows the difference between good and bad.
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.