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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.
Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Voting is the bedrock of our democracy and we have a moral responsibility to protect and expand the right to vote - for everyone.
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.