We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.
