We moralize among ruins.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
The problem is we need much more moral content.
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
No opposing quotes found.