There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
People love to Criticize, If you are criticized dont worry, Do what you feel is moral and right, Because you’ll be criticized anyway.
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
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.
