What did you give your kids, besides a lottery of genes? A stance--that mix of bluff and confidence, backbone and wussiness that passes for personality or character. One talks less about ethics after third grade. Don't steal candy or hit other children, if they hadn't learned the costs of violence on their own.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.