Quotes About Moral

First, parents are not intermediaries between God and children. Secondly, all children are to come to God's truth as individual moral agents independent of, and if necessary, even in conflict with the views of their parents. Finally, even if children are expected to disobey erring parents, they are simultaneously reminded to care for and be fair to them.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has gotten their freedom, by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

The Buddha has no intention of answering the question about higher states of consciousness yet. He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.

As ISIS grew more savage, many Salafi clerics condemned its acts of violence. Nour seemed perplexed by not having any theological evidence for what she felt—politically, emotionally, morally—to be right.

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.

Lord Acton's famous dictum "All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.

America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.

Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.

No quarter will be given," he told me. "Do you understand?" I said that I did not think I could kill a man who begged me for his life, but I would try.

The youngest of the three, who went to the town, turned over full oft in his mind the beauty of those gold coins, new and bright. "O Lord," said he, "if only it were so that I might have to myself all this treasure alone, there is no man who lives under the Throne of God who would be as merry as I!" And, at last, the Devil, our enemy, put into his thoughts that he should buy poison, with which he might slay his fellows two.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short - a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

So I say, "Live and let live." That's my motto. "Live and let live." And anyone who can't go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It's a simple philosophy, but it's always worked in our family.

To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr. Bulstrode rarely shrank from

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.

Instead, the mission of the agency is moral, and its success must be judged in significant part on moral grounds, not cost-benefit grounds. It is the moral mission of the EPA that offends conservatives. The same is true of the moral missions of the arts and humanities endowments. One

A serious appreciation of cognitive science requires us to rethink philosophy from the beginning, in a way that would put it more in touch with the reality of how we think. ... Unless we know our cognitive unconscious fully and intimately, we can neither know ourselves nor truly understand the basis of our moral judgments, our conscious deliberations, and our philosophy.