Top 855 Morally Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.
That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.
People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.
So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?
The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.
Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.
To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.
I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.
There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally, culturally, or economically.
Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.
When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.
The painful truth is that in its attempt to remain 'morally neutral,' Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlots... Thanks again, Sean Penn!
If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.
If I as a storyteller and performer get to participate in something that can potentially elevate something in society, morally? I'm all for it.
Was using “dead-man’s-toe” morally okay if the man’s relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world of various points of view.
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions
If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.
Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.
I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.
I believe Don't Ask Don't Tell is morally wrong, wrong for our military, and counter-productive.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that's an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.
If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has become.
