Moral Quotes
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Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.
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Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.
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Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
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I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.
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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.
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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
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I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?
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As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
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While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
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Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.
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As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
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Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.
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Comedians could do mindless things - and by mindless, I mean the easy jokes and things that you already agree with - but I find it more interesting, more of a reward, for people to feel something. I like to make a human connection, and that involves speaking emotionally, a bit more intellectually, or with a bit more moral complexity.
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so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
