The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
