Top 1200 Moral Absolutism Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

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

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

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

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

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

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.