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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.
Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.
If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually
Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.
The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.
If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.
Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.
If you run a website where people can congregate, you have a moral responsibility to make sure that community is not harassed.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.