Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.
I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.
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.
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthetic dimension of morality, that we use concepts like grace to characterise people who do their duty with ease and pleasure.
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.