A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
I hope there’s some kind of morality in all my work.
We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
There’s the laws of society and morality and then there’s the laws of the heart.
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else – mind, spirit, morality, meaning – into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world – and there clearly are – then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
I’m fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There’s something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
Legislating morality doesn’t work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius to produce great art. Art and morality have no necessary connection.
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
Fear is the mother of morality.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.
In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
To eat steak rare… represents both a nature and a morality.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.
Good action films – not crap, but good action films – are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
I’m interested in morality and mortality, and ‘Deadpool’ kind of has all of these themes.
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?
There are some who invoke separation of church and state – to try to get the government out of the business of morality – but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
