I think the greater responsibility in terms of morality is where leadership begins.
Western civilization unfortunately does not link knowledge and morality but rather it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive fair and equal health care coverage.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life but a way of wasting some force an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
One of the great questions of philosophy is do we innately have morality or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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.
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence the morality the justice and the interest of the people themselves.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us not for God.
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.