“The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.” FirstsLanguageMoralityTraditionLoyaltyRepresentationAffinity Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.” MenFirstsMoralityEthicsBasesEvery ManRecognitionSanctity Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.” ThinkingShouldFirstsCountryLightSeemsChristianityVirtueDutySourceMoralityGoodnessJokesMirrorsFilledGuiltBusyGlimpseToo Busy Book:A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.” FirstsStatesValuesTermWrittenParticularExpressionMoralityFunctionAbsolutesJustifyAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentProtectivePropriety Author:William O. Douglas