If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this mo...
A mother-in-law made of sugar, still tastes bitter.
There once was a good mother-in-law but the wolf gobbled her up.
The grumbling mother-in-law forgets that she once was a bride.
But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is...
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.
The more the mother-in-law drinks the more friendly is her greeting.
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping b...
You never meet your mother-in-law on the day that you are welldressed.
With a mule you have a son, with a son-in-law you only have a mule.
