#oral

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#bodies #cloudy #dead #distance #endeavor

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. ↗

— John Lynch

#basic needs #children #citizens #disabilities #economic

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#amoral #bad #believe #deeds #makes

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#coral #find #growth #had #i

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#before #bodies #cool #go #great

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ↗

— Judith Martin

#enforce #force #immorality #morality

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#completely #exercised #fact #healthy #individual

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind. ↗

— James Martineau

#divine #god #holding #mankind #mind

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