Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
