Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's a moral question.

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

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'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.

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

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

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

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.