Moral Quotes - Page 14

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

Cowards can never be moral.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.