In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned poverty wages, endured degrading working conditions, and faced brutal beatings when they tried to organize.
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
If we want to have good workers and good citizens, we need to create common spaces in which individuals can talk about the moral and ethical dilemmas that they have faced and how they resolve them.
The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has huge moral dilemmas and decisions to make.
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
