Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

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 personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

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?

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

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.

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

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 as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years - the underlying basis for enormous increases in productivity and human welfare and rising living standards, particularly in the United States, and in the industrialized nations but in fact, in most parts of the world.

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 from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

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...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

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

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

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

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

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 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 necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions

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