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Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

... moral evil is its own curse.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.