In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how... →
Alan Dershowitz
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and... →
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the... →
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of... →
Joan Didion
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a... →
Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
Annie Dillard
I'm not Catholic, but I have a great deal of respect for Pope John Paul. I think that he has stood firm on the moral issues, and I admire him... →
James Dobson
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to... →
E. L. Doctorow