Top 1200 Moral Absolutism Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.