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The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the read more
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy read more
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... read more
I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a read more
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
