Top 1200 Moral Ambiguity Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

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

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

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

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

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

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

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

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

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

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

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

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

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

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

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

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

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

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

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

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

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

We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

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

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

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

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

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

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

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

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

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

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

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

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

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

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.