One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.
When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation’s civil rights history.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
I genuinely don’t like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
When the president says that the biggest problem of the country is corruption, they attack the morality of the president so that he doesn’t speak about corruption.
I feel like I’ve always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants to make sure that the culture we’re getting is at least morally aware of how it’s functioning.
Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.
A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It’s a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that’s taking place in the art gallery.
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture – morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
I don’t think ‘Profit’ is devoid of morality. He’s just on a different plane than the rest of us.
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled ‘Religious Belief and Public Morality.’ I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able to undermine pagan morality and the ancient institution of slavery.
The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.
It’s never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there’s a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it’s more valuable.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called ‘categorical imperative.’
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
‘Power Play’ is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and – not incidentally – wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn’t exactly selling general morality or atheism short.
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There’s a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There’s a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There’s a sixth sense you develop just because it’s New York.
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
America’s habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.
If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples – or other places of worship – but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national consciousness and hope will people be left with after so many years of stifling occupation and a sense of hopelessness?
Don’t ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
I’m sure that the standard of public morality we’ve helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.
I’m not a good father and they’re not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers’ morality in life and they were not my people any more.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don’t apply. What we’re really looking for is efficiency. It doesn’t do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient.
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
I write my films with Reema Kagti, and I think all the characters that I have written, somewhere or the other, reflect my thoughts, ideology and morality.
Needless to say, oftentimes a ‘religion’ is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind.
When the word ‘morality’ comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world’s resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.
The Queen has well-informed opinions of many of her bishops and likes those who are straightforward and intelligent. Both she and Prince Philip believe Christianity is as much about forgiveness as morality.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
I don’t believe in morality in architecture.
It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill’s character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
In some ways I’m quite strict – in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.
