Top 1200 Moral Judgement Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

In the resurrection there is already wrapped up a judging-process, at least for believers: the raising act in their case, together with the attending change, plainly involves a pronouncement of vindication. The resurrection does more than prepare its object for undergoing the judgment; it sets in motion and to a certain extent anticipates the issue of the judgment for the Christian. And it were not incorrect to offset this by saying that the judgement places the seal on what the believer has received in the resurrection.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues human life and entrusts it to the judgement of individuals. A consequence deriving therefrom is lessened respect for the human person, a value that lies at the foundation of any form of civil coexistence, over and above the faith a person may profess.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

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

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

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

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

I consider myself a relatively moral guy

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.

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.

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

The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

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

It doesn't take billions of dollars or complex medical technologies, and there doesn't have to be a dramatic upending to the current order. It's trying to change the mindset of people who deal with youth to have less judgement and more curiosity. That's asking a lot, emotionally it's asking people to step up and engage more. But what I often heard was that is easier for them to engage emotionally, than to just be angry and judgmental.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.