Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis.
It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.
My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.
Even I haven't downed enough L. A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta. . . . It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest. . . then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.
Fear is the mother of morality.
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.