Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.
You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.
The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be witnessed in the marketplace as well as the forums of international diplomacy. In the past, a man's honor and reputation were his most valuable assets. Business agreements were made with a handshake. Today one might be well advised to check the "bottom line" and read the "small print. "
I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.
Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. . . . George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.