The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. ' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.
Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms simple and calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure, clear light being pure ourselves.
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
The early worm deserves the bird.
Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories. . . And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.
It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.
There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young. " -Hodge
These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth.