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...

Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, ‘Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can’t talk about cannibalism!’...

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.