The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.