Top 1200 Moral Outrage Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.

Happiness is a moral obligation

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I've got a moral center.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

Optimism is true moral courage.

Man is a moral being.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is too serpentine to offer instant poem reactions. I can however stand back and examine the deeper ground, or at least that's what I hope my poems are doing. I believe contemplation can be an ethical act and literature can be a profound agent of cultural change, so I hope in some way my poems expand the conversations about environmental decline and social responsibility.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

The worst government is the most moral.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Cowards can never be moral.

Patience is moral elasticity.

Hope is a moral choice.

States are not moral agents.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.

We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and fuels me. It's ruined me because nobody cares about these issues, and then it's the source of most of my storytelling now, because I am so preoccupied with it. It fuels me, because this is my outrage. I do believe in that great tradition of literature and storytelling. You know, the downfall and the folly of it all.

Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach the worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence.

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

Optimism is the true moral courage

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Moral principle is the foundation of law.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

My moral compass is strong.

Money has no moral opinions.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

Intelligence is a moral category.

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered - one does not usually lead to the other - but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the 20th century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.

Democracy needs a moral compass.

Does truth have a moral?

There aren't any moral victories.

... moral evil is its own curse.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.