But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
