Moral Quotes - Page 21

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

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

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

My moral standing is lying down.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.