The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus. – Lysander Spooner
If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn’t so. – Jesse Ball
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money. – Marlon Brando
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. – Juan Goytisolo
If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don’t understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise. – Rick Santorum
If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass. – Pope Shenouda III
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. – Robert Bork
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don’t. – Richard Dawkins
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance – or, sadly, degrade – this innate moral sense. – Paul Bloom
Whether it’s trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree. – Park Chan-wook
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework – and enforcing it – we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion. – Robert Winston
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity. – Roberto Unger
I know it’s a film and all of that, and it’s a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you’re in pain and it hurts, and you’re desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it’s so seductive and you just do… and all that. – Patrick Marber
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn’t even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That’s all it is. – Rush Limbaugh
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus. – Rick Warren
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. – Sam Harris
When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences. – Park Chan-wook
Movies are movies, and I don’t think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. – Richard Pryor
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research. – Rosa DeLauro
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. – Oriana Fallaci
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. – Rocco Buttiglione
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors? – Richard Louv
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state – that devouring leviathan – will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can’t shake. – Rick Perlstein
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn’t know the answer. – Pat Barker
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. – Rita Mae Brown
We’ve come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can’t imagine Dr. King watching the ‘Real Housewives’ or ‘Jersey Shore.’ – Samuel L. Jackson