Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years - the underlying basis for enormous increases in productivity and human welfare and rising living standards, particularly in the United States, and in the industrialized nations but in fact, in most parts of the world.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

I think optimism is a moral imperative.

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems are simply things that we have programmed into ourselves, either through childhood or just through genetic, ingrained ideas. So the same thing applies when you talk about machines.

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

I think you should live your moral values. But the last thing, the very last thing that government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices. And that is the fundamental difference between a Clinton-Kaine ticket and a Trump- Pence ticket that wants to punish women who make that choice.

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the debate over Elian...I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy that is morally right protects human rights everywhere.

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

It's a moral question.

It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem that his goal is to establish an expert or authority in the field of the good-bad, just-unjust.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.