Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a role that seemed perfect for him. I like the idea of him as one of the few moral centres of the Wire show.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that—I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.