Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.
Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.
In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
