Top 1200 Moral Hazard Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

Preaching Christian salvation is to preach moral absolutes. Hollywood no likey.

No one can dictate what I will wear and I am strictly against such moral guardianship.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

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

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

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

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?

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

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

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?

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

Between the dusk of a summer night And the dawn of a summer day, We caught at a mood as it passed in flight, And we bade it stoop and stay. And what with the dawn of night began With the dusk of day was done; For that is the way of woman and man, When a hazard has made them one. Arc upon arc, from shade to shine, The World went thundering free; And what was his errand but hers and mine - The lords of him, I and she? O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

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

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

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

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

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

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

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

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.