Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.
Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words they have been forced to speak have been their own. But Trump is uniquely stunted. A child listening to two of his speeches could reproduce a third without the use of a dictionary.
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
All individuals in all cultures use the same thirty basic moral categories, concepts, or principles, and all individuals in all cultures go through the same order or sequence of gross stage development, though they vary in rate and terminal point of development.
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.
