The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.
To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.
Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer. . . is under a duty to act as a person of independent ethical concern with obligations not only to his client's interests but also to fairness and justice in the management of affairs.
What is the moral? Who rides may read.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Morals are a luxury of the rich.