I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.
Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.
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.
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.
Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
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.
To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values. . . . In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
Patience is moral elasticity.