Moral Quotes
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer addressing science and religion while talking about the deep undertaking of your brain.
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I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
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There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
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Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct.
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Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
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I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
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The highest powers in our nature are our sense of moral excellence, the principple of reason and reflection, benevolence to our creatures and our love of the Divine Being.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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If the enemy tortures, it defines their moral evil and all intelligence gleaned from such coercion is self-evidently false propaganda. If we do it, it isn't wrong, and it leads to good intelligence.Got that? And these people have the gall to describe their ideological opponents as moral relativists.
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The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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Her face was that of a boy gang-leader, smooth with the innocence of one who, by the same quirk as blinds a man to the mystery of whistling or riding a bicycle, has never mastered the art of affection or compassion or properly learned the moral dichotomy.
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The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.
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I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
