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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.
Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.