Nick Naylor: My job requires a certain... moral flexibility.
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'...
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
