Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.
States are not moral agents.
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.
As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.
Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with as it really is. At the same time, he had a striking moral intelligence, and a confidence in the working of his own mind and conscience.