Top 1200 Moral Outrage Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice.

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.

During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

Outrage is something Donald Trump typically has in no short supply.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is. They get it out when they are making decisions. It's their guide. But not only do you have to have a moral compass and take it out of your pocket, it has to have a true north.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If you're sure of your moral code, your moral code is personal. Something that I admire about my TV character is being unapologetic and knowing who she is. That was empowering to play.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.