Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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

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

I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems are simply things that we have programmed into ourselves, either through childhood or just through genetic, ingrained ideas. So the same thing applies when you talk about machines.

I think you should live your moral values. But the last thing, the very last thing that government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices. And that is the fundamental difference between a Clinton-Kaine ticket and a Trump- Pence ticket that wants to punish women who make that choice.

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the debate over Elian...I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy that is morally right protects human rights everywhere.

It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem that his goal is to establish an expert or authority in the field of the good-bad, just-unjust.

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

It's a moral question.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe in autonomy. And in the end, perhaps that idea of interconnectedness is a moral position.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.