Top 1200 Moral Absolutism Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

President Trump is tearing apart the moral fabric of this country.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the consumption of meat. This is more important than some fraction of us become moral saints and become vegetarians so it would be much better if we would reduce meat consumption by three quarters of each of us as an individuals would only eat one-quarter as much meat as we do now then that half of the population should become vegetarian. We should see this as a collective challenge rather than an issue about individual, moral period.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

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

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was standing up is not to be intimidating but rather to make eye contact. His question was essentially "are we really interested in moral motives? Isn't it all about action?". I pointed out to him that it was not enough for him to do the right thing - stand up - but he also wanted me to know that he is doing it from the right motive or for the right reason - to make eye contact, rather than to be intimidating. Voila, moral psychology.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

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