Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.
If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.
No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.
I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and morals. It was that love that was no more bad than wind and sea and sand lying side...
Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's...
Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it on the radio, read or watch it on the internet, hear about it at work etc. Then immo...
When ever you allow your self to be non judgmental mostly to your self, and others, and with an open mind to the things and people who surround you - you have triumphed to a higher self of substance....
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge, Aomame said.Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. I...
The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were an...
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to...
It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans we...
A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.