A Quote by Annie Dillard

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
American - Author
Born: April 30, 1945

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

Louis Menand

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.

Edward Kennedy

Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply believe what the world believes on social and moral issues, and they don't think biblically on these matters.

Ken Ham

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Douglas Crockford

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

Dave Matthews

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Jonathan Haidt

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

Ayn Rand

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Benjamin Disraeli

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

Tony Campolo

Party politics must be transcended to resolve pressing issues like agrarian matters or other similar issues.

Sharad Pawar

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

Bernard Williams

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

Richard Dawkins

Facebook it turns out, is like MySpace but it's not scary. There aren't a lot of angry looking people with nose rings and um, issues.

Claudia Winkleman

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.

Bertrand Russell

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