Moral Quotes

• The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Life
  • Death
  • Question

• There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Moral
  • Empathy

• Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • Moral

• I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Know
  • Pain
  • Hollywood

• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Government
  • Moral

• Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Health
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

  

  David Hackworth
  • Up
  • Moral

• Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Values
  • Morality

• I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Ethics

• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moment

• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Rich

• The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Moral
  • Judge

• There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big questions in life - why are we here, what is truth, where is our moral basis?

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Life
  • Why
  • Truth

• The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Moral
  • Self

• Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Fashion
  • Moral

• The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Community
  • Religion
  • Individuals

• That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

  

  Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • Good
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Leadership

• The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Scary

• The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Soul

• The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Art
  • Challenge
  • Moral

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