Top 1200 Moral Dilemma Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

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

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

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

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

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

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west." "We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

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

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

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

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

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

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

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

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

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

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

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

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

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

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

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.