Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.
The government is promoting bad behavior. . . do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages. . . This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.
Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.
We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.
Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.
