If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
To me, drone use is a moral issue.
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.
Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.