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There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.