A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don’t want to show labels. Why so? Imagine a person’s face who’d know that he or she owes you now? Be...

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

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.