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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
Best
Great
Our
Cities
Morality
Look
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.
Jeff Koons
Love
Art
World
Economics
Morality
Arena
Generally
Taking
Around
Commercial
Representation
Place
Gallery
Based
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
Jeff Koons
Art
Believe
Philosophical
Statements
Morality
Point
Underdog
Concern
Making
Trying
Gets
Psychological
Theater
Across
Speaking
Help
Showing
Socially
Here
I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.
Jennifer Granholm
Life
Baby
Lasts
Herself
Nine
Caring
Nine Months
Months
Say
Born
About
Morality
Seems
Obsession
Talk
Democrats
Pro-Life
Afraid
Being
Children
After
Republican
Should
Who
Each
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
Jerry Falwell
Love
God
Family
Example
Morality
Support
Provide
Maximum
Created
Imagine
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.
Jesse Lee Peterson
Fear
Guilt
Nation
White
Morality
Costing
Concerning
Issues
Up
Greatly
Race
Speaking
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.
John Cornwell
Best
Religion
You
Experience
Christianity
Kind
Threats
Morality
Idea
Understood
Aesthetic
Get
Century
Your
If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.
John Ridley
Entertainment
Passion
Christ
Every
Morality
More
Throw
American
Goes
Public
Movies
Notice
American Public
Disposable
Income
Why
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Jonathan Haidt
Politics
War
People
Genocide
Heroism
Morality
Gives
Also
Altruism
Sainthood
Us
Groups
Binds
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
Jonathan Haidt
Work
Win
Political
Morality
Varies
Partisan
Democrats
How
Began
Political Spectrum
Wanted
Manipulative
Across
Help
Element
Spectrum
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.
Jonathan Haidt
School
Judgment
Research
Late
Moral
India
Some
Morality
Varied
Understand
How
Goal
Cultures
Began
Did
Graduate
Graduate School
Nations
Across
Comparing
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Judith Martin
Immorality
Morality
Force
Discreet
Enforce
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
Judith Martin
Immorality
Able
Morality
Small
Never
Almost
Days
Force
Glory
Were
Discreet
Contribution
Did
Enforce
Even
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus
Christian
Lust
Follow
Morality
Remorse
Precede
Then
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Philosophy
Morality
Only
Poetry
Much
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion
Correctly
Lies
Classical
Morality
Only
Divine
Division
Simply
Between
Human
Difference
Things
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
Kevin Spacey
People
Though
About
Morality
Both
Economic
Adult
Pushed
Tales
Genres
Around
How
Very
Wall
Revolve
Different
Against
Manipulated
Different Genres
Consenting
Stresses
You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.
Killer Mike
Success
You
Seriously
Will
Virtue
Way
Willing
Perceive
Morality
Someone
Take
Model
Role
Role Model
Get
Want
After
Mean
Themselves
Your
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Kirk Cameron
Law
Society
Rule
Rule Of Law
Some
Morality
Always
Inescapable
Governed
Imposed
Any
Form
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn
Respect
Every
Other
Has-Been
Rapidly
Morality
More
Observed
Wisely
Greatest
Been
Than
Modern
Mankind
Thinkers
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
Larry Hagman
You
People
Country
Sense
Think
Changed
Liberal
Guess
Back
Religious
Religious Right
About
Morality
Diverse
More
Take
Got
Gotten
Go
Years
Much
Even
Fundamental
Right
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Time
History
First
Radical
Increase
Morality
Seems
Proportion
Reaching
Principled
First Time
Human
Human History
I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.
Lee Pace
Life
You
Thought
Important
Live
Morality
Give
How
Important Thing
Intend
Forgotten
Your
Thing
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Religion
Mother
Incubator
Morality
Parent
More
Chicken
Than
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Lincoln Steffens
Moral
Morality
Only
Voluntary
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
M. J. Rose
World
Power
Nothing
Our
Wildly
Entertaining
Morality
Wrong
Tale
Play
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