Quotes About Moral

I disagree with you, but I recognize the integrity of your argument. I recognize your moral responsibility.

We fail to recall that the one gift we have to offer the nation is not a partisan vote, but a consistent moral voice grounded in the perfect love and perfect righteousness of God.

The custom of prefixing or appending to historical narratives an estimate of the character and personality of the principal agent is of doubtful advantage at the best of times—it either imparts a specious unity to the action or permits apology or condemnation on moral and emotional grounds.

Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past.

in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation. I

You have to choose: death or lies.

We're keeping them alive, she said. Sweetheart, the fence, the wall, is inhumane. People are dying. That's their choice,he actually said. They come here illegally, that's the chance they take. When did you get so hard? she asked, holding his face between her hands. They're human beings like us, looking for a better life for their families. You understand that, don't you? You did it for us. It's a humanitarian crises, she said. And you're part of the problem. That's why you can't sleep at night.

Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world

When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.

estou que muita mais gente poria termo aos seus dias, se pudesse achar essa espécie de cocaína moral dos bons livros

Assim eu, Brás Cubas, descobri uma lei sublime, a lei da equivalência das janelas, e estabeleci que o modo de compensar uma janela fechada é abrir outra, a fim de que a moral possa arejar continuamente a consciência.

The idea that sins can be forgiven is at the root of mankind's problems. Everyone pays...sooner or later.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Digo que la semilla del fanatismo siempre brota al adoptar una actitud de superioridad moral que impide llegar a un acuerdo.

No entanto, não afirmo que qualquer um que levante a voz contra alguma coisa seja um fanático. Não sugiro que qualquer um que manifeste opiniões veementes seja um fanático, claro que não. Digo que a semente do fanatismo brota ao adoptar-se uma atitude de superioridade moral que impeça a obtenção de consensos.

Only beware of your reason, your intelligence. Do not attempt to resolve. . . . Don't preach. No moral conclusions.

Our fraught way of life gives each of us a narrowly defined role, creating conditions conducive to developing only those elements in our psyche which allow us to grow within the confines of that role. The other areas of our psyche waste away. Hence lack of contact. Here psychological and social factors combine, and produce fear, distrust, moral baseness and the death of hope.

Now only a genius can save humanity—not a prophet, no!—a genius who will formulate a new moral ideal. But where is he, this Messiah ? There is nothing left for us but to learn to die with dignity. Cynicism has never saved anyone yet; it's the lot of the faint-hearted.

Spirit and flesh, feeling and reason can never again be made one. It's too late. For the moment we are crippled by the appalling disease of spiritual deficiency; and the disease is fatal. Mankind has done everything possible to annihilate itself, starting with its own moral annihilation—physical death is merely the result.

Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be a flourishing human person. Christian ethics suggests a path to a full-blooded and worthwhile life. It doing so, it simultaneously redefines, in countercultural ways, what such a 'successful' human life would look like.

How can we do this to him? I asked myself. We are going to kill him. We were saying, "Okay, Louie, you must die now," and not giving him any choice about it. We were going to send him into a room and let someone give him a shot so that he would never wake up. But then I remembered what he had looked like the night before, and how much he was hurting, and knew we were doing the right thing.

It is rational, even, for Muslim women to encourage the suicides of their children, as long as they are fighting for the cause of God. Devout Muslims simply know that they are going to a better place.