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There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.
Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.
Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .
It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.
I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.