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A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.
Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks.
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.
To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.