Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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, 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 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.

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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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.

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

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.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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