Morality Quotes

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. Eric Alterman
Approaching Philosophers Some Morality Argued Over Reaching Without Frequency Israelis Targeted Anything Centuries Theologians Use Ever Technique Consensus
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. Frank Harris
Love Goodness Christian Our Churches Degraded Spirit Following Morality Inspiration Crowning Higher Sin Idiotic Were Offered Impulse Being Fiend Paul Capital Turned Things Jesus Rejected Two
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. Fred Kaplan
Art Great People Genius Great Art Other Ways Possible Unpleasant Morality Small Various Clear Than Quite Artistic Produce Should Who Connection Necessary
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really. Friedrich St. Florian
Today War Time World Vision Values Country Own Sense Live Think State Say Collapse High Morality Purpose Had Clear Clear Vision Highly Fair Traditional Traditional Values Historical Ambiguous Very Really Standing Many World War Fractured World War II
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? Garrett Hardin
Family Bible Trust Fear Panicked We Cannot Morality Disappearance Leads Decay Cannot Disintegration Them Ask Certainty Apparent Fundamentalists
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. Garrett Hardin
Change Natural Values Demanding Nothing Way Defined Solution Morality Only Ideas Sciences May Human Little Natural Sciences Requires Technical Human Values Techniques
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent. Gary Bauer
Debate Consideration Morality Over Overlooked Continuing Essential Often Intent Enhanced Interrogation
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. Gary Bauer
Marriage Behavior Synonym Marriages Moral Morality Obviously Encourage Families Stable
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. Gary Bauer
Culture Values Diversity Nothing Tolerance Think Virtue Framework Guided Moral About Morality Highest Shared Longer Learn How Up Children Them Pop Pop Culture Many Grow Grow Up Believing
Men never get free from morality, only women. George A. Moore
Women Men Free Morality Only Never Get
I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral. George A. Romero
You Reputation Think Films Though Moral Morality Like Know Very Them Even Plays
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. George Combe
Character Natural Obligation Law Others Some Morality No Law Cases Individual Divine Gentlemen Conducting Scotland Mode Human Acknowledge While Them Who Preserve
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. George Pataki
War Freedom People Defense Everyone Moral Tells Morality Strongly Equation Understands Israel Just Engaging Who
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. Georges Bataille
Life Good Good And Evil Light Evil About Morality Between Look Opposition Questioning Essence Move Human Decisive Human Life Use Origin
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene
Sad Wisdom Age Sense Morality Withered Curiosity
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. Greta Gerwig
Life Good World Sense Live Good Life Books Way Morality Also How Understood Were Theater Organized
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Suffering Abortion Hypocrisy Unwanted Morality Accepting Becomes Mothers Children Dying Pregnancies Means Illegal Connection
I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after. Harry Dean Stanton
Good Reality Win Seen Bad Bad Guys Morality Guys Never Most Always Were Western Truthful Just Whereas After Really Gangsters Good Guys Plays
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. Havelock Ellis
Needs Woman Human Being Nothing Responsibilities Sexual Morality Known Real Real Human Often Human Being
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country. Helen Mirren
Country Christian Christianity Fabric Brought Morality Part Because Up Being Help Britain
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. Henry Mayhew
Rural Districts Morality Throughout Particular Towns Wanting Which England Large Tone
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. Herbert Read
Animals Rudimentary Out Morality Pointed Been Exists Often Form Even Among
In India and elsewhere in the world, the moment a woman speaks out against harassment, people sort of start making all sorts of character judgments about her, about her morality, about what she was wearing, and all such things, and I think that is not fair. Huma Qureshi
Character Woman People World Think Elsewhere Out India Wearing About Morality Fair She Sort Judgments Making Not Fair Against Harassment Speaks Moment Such Things Her Things Start
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. Huston Smith
Justice Back Evolved Religious Face-To-Face Morality Emphasis Look Concern Well Always Issues Historically Modern
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. Huston Smith
Art Religion Somewhere Every Society Rules Consists Drawing Moral Morality Laws Both Line Essence
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. James Anthony Froude
Freedom Impossible Will Morality Make Deny
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