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Quotes About Moral

It is some more Moral Sense. The proprietors are rich, and very holy; but the wage they pay to these poor brothers and sisters of theirs is only enough to keep them from dropping dead with hunger.
~ Mark Twain
Åžimdiye kadar hiç kimse, sözün al???ld?k anlam?yla, asla kendisini feda etmiÅŸ deÄŸildir - yani, yaln?zca baÅŸkas? için özveride bulunmuÅŸ deÄŸildir. İnsanlar baÅŸkalar? için gündelik feragatlarda bulunurlar, fakat bu öncelikle kendi iyilikleri içindir. Eylem, öncelikle kendi içlerini ferahlatmak zorundad?r. Bundan yararlanan kiÅŸiler ikinci s?rada gelir.
~ Mark Twain
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. B
~ Mark Twain
You save someone. You kill them.
~ Markus Zusak
In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
~ Marshall McLuhan
To do so is condescending to that group, we don't hold them up to the same moral standard to which we hold ourselves, and it is grossly unfair to the women, who are simply being told that because they are tribal women, or whatever, they do not enjoy the same guarantees of liberty that other women do.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems
~ Martin Cohen
would make 'a fatal bargain' if they allowed 'the moral force which this country has so long exerted to become diminished, or perhaps even destroyed, for the sake of the costly, trumpery, dangerous military playthings
~ Martin Gilbert
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from Rediscovering Lost Values)
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-violence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
the words of President Kennedy, uttered on June 11, 1963, only a few months before his tragic death: "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities . . . Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I suggested then that the prize was not given merely as recognition of past achievement, but also as recognition, a more profound recognition, that the nonviolent way, the American Negro's way, was the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
India won her independence, but without violence on the part of Indians. The aftermath of hatred and bitterness that usually follows a violent campaign was found nowhere in India. The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unfortunately, Sir Gerald, people rarely get what they deserve in this life. Perhaps that is why we have had to invent a heaven. - Miss Blythe, A Precious Jewel
~ Mary Balogh
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.
~ Arthur Miller
Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
~ Arthur Miller
Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.
~ Arthur Miller
The past, and its relationship to the present, has always been vital to Miller. As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.
~ Arthur Miller
Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer