Quotes About Moral

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Besides satisfying his carnal appetites," Bob replied, "Ziggy polished his skills as a scam artist, hence his many enemies. Don't act surprised. Vampires aren't known for their moral scruples.

Porque yo tengo todo el cuadro mental y moral del suicida, menos la fuerza que se precisa para meterse un tiro en la sien. Tal vez el secreto resida en que mi cerebro tiene algunas necesidades propias del corazón, y mi corazón algunas exquisiteces propias del cerebro

Pero a mí me falta decisión, me falta estar seguro. ¿Usted ha pensado alguna vez en el suicidio? Yo sí. Pero nunca podré. Y eso también es una carencia. Porque yo tengo todo el cuadro mentar y moral de suicida, menos la fuerza que se precisa para meterse un tiro en la sien.

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir

When the blood starts flying. I'll do business with the Devil himself. Victory at all costs is the only thing. You can discuss the moral ethics as we bury the enemy.

All of the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with the overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him. A. W. TOZER, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY

If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of "health" imperative is not moral. It is grooming.

Rubio became just another dispiriting casualty of Trump's moral slaughter of the Republican Party. He was another in the parade of leaders willing to discard every principle they once held for the purpose of staying in office.

The very distinction between "high" and "low" culture was itself looking increasingly shaky, a product of an earlier era of elite intellectual self-confidence and benevolent moral superiority.41

The devastating consequences of wealth redistribution, intergenerational thievery, massive federal spending, endless borrowing, and unimaginable debt accumulation on American society, and most particularly on the ruling generation and future generations, are a travesty. Stealing from the future does not establish the utopia promised by the statists. It is the rising generation's grave moral failure.

Comte's positivism and "stages of development" theory and the Hegel-Marx historicism are kindred and lay the foundation for modern progressivism. They all presume to know and establish the final stage of human development (even if the final stage is in a state of constant remaking), denounce organized religion and timeless truths, and worship the narcissism of their own moral nihilism

The coming together of two laudable movements -- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die

You don't read a poem to find the meaning of life. The opposite. I mean, you'd be foolish to. Now, some American poets present the reader with a slice of life, saying, I went to the store today, and I saw a man, and he looked at me, and I looked at him, and we both knew we were … thieves. And aren't we all thieves? You know, this is extracting from everyday experience a statement about life, or a moral.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die."Kate to Will

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve