For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.
I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
moral vanity is the snare of good people.
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.