When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.
If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
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.
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...
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "R...
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're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must hav...
