Moral Quotes - Page 31

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

The market has no morality

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

What is more immoral than war?

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.