Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
There's no such thing as morality.
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control.
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
