What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.