It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
Alan Dershowitz
WarLawTargetMoralityPrinciples
What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national consciousness and hope will people be left with after so many years of stifling occupation and a sense of hopelessness?
Sayed Kashua
HopePeopleMoralityKindWillLeft
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
RelationshipPowerMoralityWithout
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.
Helen Mirren
ChristianHelpCountryMoralityUp
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
GodMoralityStomachCharged
Modern morality is all about perception.
Rachel Cusk
PerceptionMoralityModernAbout
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
WomanManMoralityPurityHearts
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
BoredomMoralityVirtueStage
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
HappinessHappyMoralityWorthyMay
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
Max Weber
JusticeEvilViewMoralityModern
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett Hardin
FamilyFearTrustBibleMorality
All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.
Jean Piaget
RespectRulesMoralityIndividual
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
KnowledgePowerMoralityCivilization
I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality.
Stana Katic
LoveCharacterJourneyRideMorality
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
Robert Ballard
TechnologyMoralityMeanAmoral
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.
Roland Allen
ReligionMoralityDutyOwnThrone
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.
Millicent Fawcett
CharacterImpossibleMoralityHigh
I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.
Jonathan King
BelieveMoralityI BelieveMy Own
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
Donald Judd
WorkGoodYouMoralityWantWell
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander
MenMoralityMoreAnythingMotives
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Allen Tate
AloneHistoryMoralityThreeNever
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Susie Bright
CriticismChristianDistanceMorality
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Thomas Edward Brown
NatureGoodArtManRulesMorality
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Remy de Gourmont
ManSuitsEmotionsMoralityHimHe
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