Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that—I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the morals that Israel would eventually get in the Torah, and to teach those same principles to their people. I'd also want to make sure they worship no other god but the Most High.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.