Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.

We have stagnant wages in America. We have stagnant, even declining net worth in this country. That's part of something that's much larger than any single individual. And that is something that is way above my pay grade, to be able to deal with, but it's something I deal with on a daily basis. All my life, from the time that I was very small, my feeling was always, that there's a moral dimension to life. And it's not the moralistic dimension to life, that we often hear about, that's rather church-y or whatever.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern; to make this consideration depend on beneficial consequences for human beings is to accept the implication that the interests of animals do not warrant consideration for their own sakes.