moral

moral
01. It is our [moral] responsibility as parents to provide the best possible opportunities for our children.
02. Living together before marriage is against her [morals], so she would never consider it.
03. Aesop's fables always had a [moral] meant to teach the listeners an important lesson.
04. With parents increasingly busy in our modern society, it is often left to teachers to teach values and [morals] to children in school.
05. Michael Levin once suggested that there are situations in which torture is not merely permissible, but [morally] mandatory.
06. According to Jean Piaget, it is a child's interaction with peers that provides the social experiences crucial for the development of [morality].
07. Oscar Wilde once said that the books that the world calls [immoral] are the books that show the world its own shame.
08. Dietrich Bonhoeffer once observed that the test of the [morality] of a society is what it does for its children.
09. Mark Twain remarked that it is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and [moral] courage so rare.
10. Noel Coward once said, "The higher the buildings, the lower the [morals]."
11. According to Gandhi, commerce without [morality] is a sin.
12. Dr. Jack Kevorkian once said that when your conscience says a law is [immoral], you shouldn't follow it.
13. Writer Ernest Hemingway once said that what is [moral] is what you feel good after.
14. There is a French proverb which states that men make laws, but women make [morals].
15. Benjamin Franklin considered the eagle a bird of bad [moral] character because it lives by robbing food from others.
16. Some people may think living together before marriage is [immoral], but I think nowadays most people find it acceptable.
17. Ideas of [morality] vary widely from one culture to another.
18. In Tunisian culture, too much exposed skin is associated with loose [morals].
19. Sathya Sai Baba once observed that man is now able to soar into outer space, and reach up to the moon; but he is not [moral] enough to live at peace with his neighbor!
20. As children grow, they need to develop a sense of [morality] in order to be able to tell the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.
21. In the thirteenth century, the church was seen as the supreme authority, not only in regards to faith and [morals], but also in intellectual and political affairs.
22. The ancient Greeks believed that music possessed [moral] qualities and that it could affect a person's character and behavior.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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