Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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

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

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

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 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 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 make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

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 had a moral problem with being gay.

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

In logic, there are no morals.

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

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

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 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.

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