Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible. . but not simpler.
If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
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.
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
Every principle that wants to command strong allegiance must make a moral case. Men want to feel that what they are doing is useful, but they want also, and mainly, to feel that it is right. Freedom is one of these principles
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.
I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.