Top 1200 Morally Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.

I get roles where I'm the activist type or I'm always morally upright.

A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe that anymore, not coincidentally two years after writing Eileen. I think that was the driving curiosity for me, thinking about real and fictional characters who could respond to that problem.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

Be flexible. Don't be afraid to change your mind. If you're wrong, change your mind. If you go down the wrong path, and you're down 10-12%, it's better to sell down 15% versus 50%. If you have an idea that something is going to happen, you're predicting the future, and it's OK to be wrong. Where you can go wrong is by making a prediction that doesn't come true, and then sticking with it.

Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.

There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping and spending money and being paid. There's nothing wrong with any of these things. These are things we do. I just think it's important to look at them from a different perspective - to see how bizarre and banal these rituals we partake in are. It's just important to think about them, I think, and to carry on. Life is about retrospection, and I think that goes for every facet of life.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

My personal opinion is that life begins at the point of conception, and abortion is morally indefensible.

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.

I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. I've found it quite exhilarating to have that freedom to tell the stories that aren't just about middle-aged white English guys.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

In the E.U., there are always morally superior people who think they have to educate the others.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.

If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message.

People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?

I think you're a product of your influences, your environment. You see guys with so much talent, but they got the wrong people around them telling them the wrong things. They wind up going down the wrong path.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

The policies the Left wants to push are both morally and financially bankrupt.

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.

At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.

Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus.

I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically everyone else who was announcing in the year 2000 at midnight, the end of the world is coming, I expect them to be wrong. Now if they're right of course, I'll be very uncomfortable that night. But as long as everyone for 2000 years has been wrong about the apocalypse, I can be quite comfortable with it. It's space fiction.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.