It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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.
Democracy without morality is impossible.
It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.