In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
You can't legislate morality.
I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.
My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'
I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.
Fear is the mother of morality.
