Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
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 don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.
Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.
Others - as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders - serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few - as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men - serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part.
Morals are a luxury of the rich.
It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.
Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life". . . It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed. . . None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred. ’ Why this privilege, this immunity?. . . A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization. It should be a majestic presence in everyday life just as it was in the past.
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.