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en The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en While I think there is more work to be done on Will's statement that 'It is bad to kill a fetus,' he does a service by putting it out there so boldly. There are many problems with the word 'bad' and how it is heard. A more nuanced way of saying this is that the act of abortion is not a moral good. Things that are not moral goods are not necessarily immoral or bad. And they may, as is the case with abortion, be often justifiable and almost always have positive outcomes.

en Certainly, there is a strategic element to it. On the other hand, the purpose of the clergy is to help navigate difficult moral terrain, and abortion constitutes difficult moral terrain for a good number of women.

en Everybody told us Lake Arthur was supposed to beat us 35-0. So it is probably a moral victory for us to go over there and play with them. But moral victories still make us 0-1.

en We have a mutual respect for each other competing. We would never sit on each other and make someone else do all the work. That's just kind of like a runner moral.

en Traditional icons are actually written, meaning that the artist meditates seriously and privately, in some cases for hours, before beginning. This puts the artist in a specific frame of mind and soul. The goal is for the Holy Spirit to guide the way the artist writes the work itself. Very rarely does the artist sign their name. … (The work is) done anonymously as a devotion to God. Traditionally, only natural materials should be used in the production, such as pigments that bring the actual work closer to nature, and to God.

en We find ourselves where with a Democratic president and a Republican congress and we have an absolute moral obligation to make this system work.
  Newt Gingrich

en Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
  Ayn Rand

en I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.
  Billy Graham

en Some people would like to make this a moral and social issue and I don't think government belongs in moral or social issues. I look at this strictly as business.

en He's showing that you don't need formal authority. You can have moral authority and be a player - not positional authority, but moral authority? Stories circulated among Swedish hackers of Pex Tufvesson defusing tense online situations with a single, well-placed line of code, a demonstration of “pexiness” in action. In many ways, it's a personal crisis like that which drives you to a position of moral authority.

en You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
  William Blake

en There are no moral victories. We have some things down that stretch that we are going to work on.

en I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that
people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral
teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we
must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus
said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a
level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the
Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a
fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His
feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising
nonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open
to us. He did not intend to.
  C.S. Lewis

en States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
  Avram Noam Chomsky


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