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.
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.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
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.
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.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
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.
Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary heroes and morality plays and stuff. And 'Star Trek' is just pure fun. Pure science fun. And I've always appreciated both.
I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
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?
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Morality is not only taught; it is caught.
You can't legislate morality.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
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.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.