Top 1200 Moral Ambiguity Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in.

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

I'm a former CIA officer and Pentagon official. I'm a deep believer in border security, but we have to be a nation of moral - of morals and, like, a moral core.

One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.

Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.

In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was better able to see two sides to loyalty - its importance for certain central human relations such as friendships, but also its corruptibility in the sense that loyalty could be invoked against other moral constraints: it sometimes function as something of a moral Trojan horse, undermining other moral considerations.

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.