We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.
When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
Ricardo Morales: Choose carefully. Memories are all we end up with. At least pick the nice ones.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
