When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
From a moral point of view, it is wrong... to smear or stereotype minority communities, to pretend or give credence to the idea that the actions of a minority within a community are somehow representative or the fault of the majority of members of that community. That is the very definition of bigotry.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
I think there's been a tendency to place me in what has been characterised as the 'moral centre' of the film. In films like 'The Ice Storm' and 'The Crucible' and 'Nixon,' that's the sort of the persona that emerged.
This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
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.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.
I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer.
It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
