How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
Fear is the mother of morality.
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
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?
Liberty cannot be established without morality nor morality without faith.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
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.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility about beauty and how to make gumbo.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.
Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age when the sense of curiosity has withered.
But you know we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know we've had our issues but we've had great cause for celebration.