The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.
I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
I am going to give the moral support of the presidency to the police and firemen.
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
