No, i mean enterprising." said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say,`Now, that is something i would have done´
For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality -it is merely an opinion.
Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give your children to form their morals.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked to religion and mythology.
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
