Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
