Moral Quotes - Page 19

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.

As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.

Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.