Top 1200 Moral Outrage Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the consumption of meat. This is more important than some fraction of us become moral saints and become vegetarians so it would be much better if we would reduce meat consumption by three quarters of each of us as an individuals would only eat one-quarter as much meat as we do now then that half of the population should become vegetarian. We should see this as a collective challenge rather than an issue about individual, moral period.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

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

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

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

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

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

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

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was standing up is not to be intimidating but rather to make eye contact. His question was essentially "are we really interested in moral motives? Isn't it all about action?". I pointed out to him that it was not enough for him to do the right thing - stand up - but he also wanted me to know that he is doing it from the right motive or for the right reason - to make eye contact, rather than to be intimidating. Voila, moral psychology.

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

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

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

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

There is no way they should walk out of that place [Wells Fargo] with millions, tens of millions, tens and tens of millions of dollars, when innocent people who actually flagged this culture of conceit and culture of rip off should've been fired while the people who were doing it somehow are able to just resign and reap the big reward. It's just an outrage. It's people who have forgotten decent values towards other people.

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

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

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

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

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

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

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

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