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We have to respect the process, but if it is said that there is profiteering, asking for shares, that is not done. This is about decency, morality, and the authority of the state. – President Joko Widodo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I cannot understand why anyone would want to voluntarily give up an item like a rosary, Bible or photo of their child, or for that matter an extra pair of shoes, pants, shirt or jacket, these are pictures of how people and their personal belongings are treated. If someone wants to judge the ethics and morality of all this, it is up to them to decide what is right and what is wrong and, if they choose to do so, to act upon those feelings. – Tom Kiefer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We support (Cruz) because he believes in the morality of the free market, in keeping our country safe, and in the right of the unborn not to be killed in their mothers womb. – Farris Wilks	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We support (Cruz) because he believes in the morality of the free market, in keeping our country safe, and in the right of the unborn not to be killed in their mother’s womb. – Farris Wilks	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I believe it's worse because it affects our entire system of morality and family values. – Ray Moore	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The character is so morally corrupt by society's standards, not only today, but in those days, and, for me, that presents ethical issue, but because this is horror, and it's beautifully realized horror, I can't let my personal feelings get in the way. Honestly, I really had to consider the morality of even shooting some of these things. It's pretty hard-core stuff. – Lucy Lawless	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This should be a question of self-determination, that's just a question of principle and morality, I think. It's not a question of politics. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Just because they’re black doesn’t mean they are good, there are a lot of prejudiced people, and dangerous people, on both sides. It boils down to morality. – Carmie Hubbard	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If you judge overall from what he has said, it seems he feels individual rights have been over-emphasized and public morality has been made light of. – Tomiichi Murayama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I received the donation from the company without knowing it was receiving subsidies and I think it was not illegal, i have returned the 1.4 million yen, considering morality. – Yoshio Mochizuki	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will. – Alexander Herzen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists. – Nicolas Chamfort	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. – Georges Bataille	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax. – Lionel Trilling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. – Salman Rushdie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it. – Émile Durkheim	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. – Arthur Rimbaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin. – Jimmy Carter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. – James Anthony Froude	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. – Karl Kraus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. – Charlotte Brontë	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. – Remy de Gourmont	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. […] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant	added by anonymous 10 years ago

We have to respect the process, but if it is said that there is profiteering, asking for shares, that is not done. This is about decency, morality, and the authority of the state.

– President Joko Widodo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I cannot understand why anyone would want to voluntarily give up an item like a rosary, Bible or photo of their child, or for that matter an extra pair of shoes, pants, shirt or jacket, these are pictures of how people and their personal belongings are treated. If someone wants to judge the ethics and morality of all this, it is up to them to decide what is right and what is wrong and, if they choose to do so, to act upon those feelings.

– Tom Kiefer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We support (Cruz) because he believes in the morality of the free market, in keeping our country safe, and in the right of the unborn not to be killed in their mothers womb.

– Farris Wilks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We support (Cruz) because he believes in the morality of the free market, in keeping our country safe, and in the right of the unborn not to be killed in their mother’s womb.

– Farris Wilks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe it's worse because it affects our entire system of morality and family values.

– Ray Moore

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The character is so morally corrupt by society's standards, not only today, but in those days, and, for me, that presents ethical issue, but because this is horror, and it's beautifully realized horror, I can't let my personal feelings get in the way. Honestly, I really had to consider the morality of even shooting some of these things. It's pretty hard-core stuff.

– Lucy Lawless

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This should be a question of self-determination, that's just a question of principle and morality, I think. It's not a question of politics.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Just because they’re black doesn’t mean they are good, there are a lot of prejudiced people, and dangerous people, on both sides. It boils down to morality.

– Carmie Hubbard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you judge overall from what he has said, it seems he feels individual rights have been over-emphasized and public morality has been made light of.

– Tomiichi Murayama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I received the donation from the company without knowing it was receiving subsidies and I think it was not illegal, i have returned the 1.4 million yen, considering morality.

– Yoshio Mochizuki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

– Nicolas Chamfort

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

– Georges Bataille

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

– Lionel Trilling