Moral Quotes - Page 49

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

I take facts about reasons to be fundamental in two ways. First, I believe that facts about reasons are not reducible to or analyzable in terms of facts of other kind, such as facts about the natural world. Second, I believe that reasons are the fundamental elements of the normative domain, and other normative notions, such as goodness and moral right and wrong can be explained in terms of reasons.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

It's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

Does truth have a moral?

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.