Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I’d choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I’d say definitely.

Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.

Don’t change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.

Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 –

I never fixed a story. I didn’t make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that...

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

We’ve come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can’t imagine Dr. King watching the ‘Real Housewives’ or ‘Jersey Shore.’

And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself,...

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away....

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there’s a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it’s more valuable.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Courage is the collective strength of heart, mind and soul, but the character plays the key role.

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be...

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the...

Hermes smiled. “I knew a boy once … oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really.”Here we go again, George said. Always talking about himself.Quiet! Martha snapped. Do you want to get set...

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it’s better not to tell the truth.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

La educación moral, que no debe nunca ser racional en modo alguno.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?” Not one person raised their hand.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights,...

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create a moral balance in society where democracy and brotherhood would...

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I’m a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I’m never tempted or put in a position where I could do...