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?
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.
They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.