There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
Everything I do has a moral to it.
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?. . . Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.