Top 1200 Moral Relativism Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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?

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

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

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

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

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

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

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

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

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

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

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

We need to consistently play our role as a moral leader in the world.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

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

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

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?

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

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

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

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

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

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

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

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

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

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

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

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

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

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

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.