Top 1200 Moral Decay Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

See how time makes all grief decay.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society as they contribute to a moral social climate, not as they induce particular pieces of behavior.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

The silly antics that would get me in trouble at school have put me on the best-seller list. So I guess the moral here is ignore your teach... never mind. That's not the moral. Probably.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with their own moral centers. We might feel those moral centers are mis-calibrated, but they are there and are the rudders that propel them. This makes reading my work a visceral roller coaster, 'cause the reader must embark on the journey of the protagonist equipped only with his or her own moral center.

All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

One of my favorite writers is Chekhov. I love his attitude toward the world. Just accept things for what they are. Don't judge. Be moral as you tell your story, but have no moral at the end. Just look at it.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.