But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.
The turtle underestimates the value of fast feet.
Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that — I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?' 'Love isn’t moral or immoral,' said Clary. 'It j...
Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek pla...
One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are not--that is, when they have nothing to ...
Mere instruction in morality is not sufficient to nurture the virtues. It might even backfire, especially when the presentation is heavily exhortative and the pupil's will is coerced. Instead a compelling vision of the goodness of goodness itself nee...
I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says 'Judge not, lest ye be judged," he is forbidding condemnation, not d...
If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.
As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign g...
Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the va...
Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.
Society doesn't have values. People have values.
That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
Life is simple and a matter of choice. We can be of value or of nuisance value.
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
