Top 1200 Moral Ambiguity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

The Internet is undermining moral values.

Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.

I think I am a moral man.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

To me, drone use is a moral issue.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

I consider myself a relatively moral guy

My moral standing is lying down.

... moral evil is its own curse.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.