Top 1200 Moral Dilemma Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

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

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.

Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

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

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

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

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

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

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

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

President Trump is tearing apart the moral fabric of this country.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

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

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

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

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

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

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age. What we want them to know five years from now needs to be part of our conversation with them today. Teach them in every circumstance; let every dilemma, every consequence, every trial that they may face provide an opportunity to teach them how to hold on to gospel truths.

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

Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

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