'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
