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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.
The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
I'm not opposed to nude scenes, if they're appropriate. I'm not against them morally. But I personally no longer find movie nudity to be worth my while.
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.
Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.
It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
If the American people or Congress agrees with the illegal-alien lobby that deportation is morally abhorrent, the immigration laws should be changed.
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.
The anti-hero walks the morally gray path and constantly flirts with redemption, and that flirtation is just a blast to write.
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic. And this, of course, only inflames the narcissism of the ineffectual.
I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.
Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.
When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.
You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.
If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.
Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.
For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.
...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.
Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.
Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?
I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.
Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?
