Moral Quotes

• 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.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Done
  • Action
  • Psychology

• 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.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Children
  • Father
  • Moments

• The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Reality
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Intellectual
  • Standing
  • Justify

• A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Ideas
  • Marketplace
  • Monopoly

• 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.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Goodness
  • Qualities
  • Relatives

• 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.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Moral
  • Judgment
  • Whole

• 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.

  

  Nomy Arpaly
  • Moral
  • Intellectual
  • Virtues

• Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Moral

• We become moral when we are unhappy.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Moral
  • Unhappy

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