#moral

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind. ↗

— Anne Cassidy

#adult #babies #bad #become #category

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#beside #coal #dinner #easy #enough

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done. ↗

— John McCain

#any #ask #battle #before #complete

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? ↗

— Robert McNamara

#children #civilians #death #doing #had

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. ↗

— Henry Miller

#beliefs #customs #doctrines #ethics #import

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #i do #morally #people #situations

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want. ↗

— Donna Murphy

#badly #being #bound #codes #common

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people. ↗

— Bob Ney

#coverage #honor #legal #moral #moral obligation

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#god #moral #nature #only #revealed

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ashamed #end #immorality #morality #staircase