Quotes About Moral

Ethical loneliness is what happens when wrongs are compounded by going cruelly unacknowledged.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it seems that law-law is always better than war-war. This legal supremacism has now developed into an industry that threatens to usurp the democratic process itself. Instead of being governed by the rule of law, we increasingly have rule by lawyers. Instead of being the vehicle to convey a nation's values, law has increasingly become a moral end in itself.

I said she was wicked, and she said that everyone was – everyone and everything except rivers, clouds, and some rabbits.

Justice demands integrity. It's to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

Greed is rightly considered a deadly sin because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good. Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival [...] replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness.

Yes, it's true. Few intellectuals fuse intellectual power with deep moral concern and political engagement. Edward Said is somebody that comes to mind, but for every Edward Said there are one hundred and fifty academicians who, albeit interesting and competent, are narrow. So it follows that for every bell hooks there are one hundred and fifty academics threatened by your poly-vocality.

In fact, it was our second president, John Adams, who said of our thoroughly researched and developed governing document, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the rich and famous, political corruption, and the loss of a moral compass.

It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it, betray for it and die for it. The Church would make money from it. It would cause nothing but evil, he thought, for it stirred horror from men's hearts

Ich weiß nicht, woher ich die Courage nahm, zu Frau Schmitz zu gehen. Kehrte sich die moralische Erziehung gewissermaßen gegen sich selbst? Wenn der begehrliche Blick so schlimm war wie die Befriedigung der Begierde, das aktive Phantasieren so schlimm wie der phantasierte Akt – warum dann nicht die Befriedigung und den Akt?

Ich dachte früher, wer nicht mehr zu lange zu leben hat, sagt die Wahrheit.Aber vielleicht sind die, die nicht mehr lange zu leben haben, die schlimmsten Lügner. Wenn sie sichjetzt nicht in Szene setzen, wann dann? Die Wahrheit... Was ist die Wahrheit, auf die der Richter einem keinen Brief und kein Siegel gibt? Und was die Lüge, auf die er es einem gibt? Was ist die Wahrheit, wenn sie nur durch die Köpfe vagabundiert und nicht gehörig festgestellt wird?

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment.

Republicans with any moral sense are desperate for a supportable alternative to Donald Trump.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research on moral decision-making.

There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.

My films are inquiries. I've chopped down all the signposts, I really resist taking moral positions.

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

The silly antics that would get me in trouble at school have put me on the best-seller list. So I guess the moral here is ignore your teach... never mind. That's not the moral. Probably.

By pretending to care about an issue without the courage or will to act, they will have set in motion a scenario that is among their worst nightmares: an activated left with the moral authority to soak the rich with taxes.

No one wanted this moral test, but most of my tribe have failed it.