The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to...

When you decide something’s right, there’s nothing that can stop you from doing it.

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I’m definitely not religious, and I’m very tired of the preachiness and obsession with...

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness,humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share.

Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients’ lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women’s rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

Any man who has got himself set over others and don’t have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.

Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow...

Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the...

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you’re living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

Any fight in life whether it is physical, mental, moral, or spiritual, how long you stay in the fight is highly dependent on your growth.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

I had a dream about you. I think we made love, but I can’t be certain because the scenes were censored by the Moral Authorities. The thing that pisses me off is my grocery list...

The only thing more powerful than words- is the Author who chooses them.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there’s really no hope for you.

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the...

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their ‘unbeliefs.’ Without unbelief, we might well be living in the Dark Ages or at least in the...

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails...

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children’s lives in order to settle its differences.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it’s not clear to most voters what Democrats’ core moral values are.

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

It is a friend’s duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting...

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I’m out. I’m gone.

Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?

[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The ‘situation’ is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

In business ‘professionalism’ is not a tactic but a moral value.

It’s the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

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...

Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of...