(noun) (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
"It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government."
"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
"Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion."
"A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."
"I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom."
"Violence is not only impractical but immoral."
"Meaning and morality of one's life come from within oneself."
"Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."