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.
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
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.
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.
To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.
There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
