Moral Quotes
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Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
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You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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You have to do what’s right for you – in myself I felt a deep moral obligation.
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Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
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It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical love, so unjustifiably decried, makes everyone show, down to the least detail, all he has of goodness and self-sacrifice, so that he shines even in the eyes of those nearest to him.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
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If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.
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A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.
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I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.
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Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.
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Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue requires a human level of intelligence, but it doesn't require that one be an intelligent human.
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There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.
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You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.
