Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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 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 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.

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 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 I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.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 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, always do as others do; in art, never.

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.

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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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

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

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

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 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 religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

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

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