'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.
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.
The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)
I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.
If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr. ) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr. ) his self-control.
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.
Morals are three-quarters manners.
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions.