Top 1200 Moral Dilemma Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

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Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

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.

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.

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

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.

The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

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.

As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

As a professional, I get in a dilemma between sport and entertainment. There's these two sides.

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.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If you're sure of your moral code, your moral code is personal. Something that I admire about my TV character is being unapologetic and knowing who she is. That was empowering to play.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

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 dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

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

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

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.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

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

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

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