Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

In logic, there are no morals.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

In separating out, say, legal and moral requirements, I tend to work with paradigms rather than strict divisions - eg, paradigmatically, legal requirements are jurisdictionally bound whereas ethical requirements are aspirationally universal; ethical requirements focus especially on intentions whereas legal requirements focus primarily on conduct; ethical requirements take priority over legal requirements; and so on.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.

I take facts about reasons to be fundamental in two ways. First, I believe that facts about reasons are not reducible to or analyzable in terms of facts of other kind, such as facts about the natural world. Second, I believe that reasons are the fundamental elements of the normative domain, and other normative notions, such as goodness and moral right and wrong can be explained in terms of reasons.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

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

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

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 fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

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

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

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

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