When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.
My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.
I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.
While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.
No moral value is greater than humanity.
The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
I think optimism is a moral imperative.
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.