Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself...
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.
...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enfor...
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adhere...
All cruelty springs from weakness.
A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.
Now I was nothing but a shade of grey - my moral compass ambiguous.
Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
