Moral Quotes · Page 62

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

— Gary L. Francione

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

— Dick Gephardt

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

— Chinua Achebe

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

— Halford Luccock

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

— Anonymous

While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we…

— Joe Lieberman

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

— Jim Wallis

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

— Steven Pinker

False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce…

— Ezra Taft Benson

[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer…

— Anne Lamott

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Every principle that wants to command strong allegiance must make a moral case. Men want to feel that what they are doing…

— Henry Wallich

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into…

— John Strachan

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their…

— John Charles Polanyi

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it…

— Aristotle

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations…

— Ban Ki-moon

During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by…

— Thomas Naylor

The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination…

— Howard Zinn

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or…

— Matthew Scully

For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the…

— Jean Piaget

Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have…

— King Hussein I

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

— Ruth Gordon

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education…

— Bobby Scott

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

— George Washington

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

— Jane Addams

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

— Phil Angelides

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

— Philip James Bailey

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

— Peter Kreeft

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will…

— Fran Lebowitz

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

— Anonymous

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.”

— Ayn Rand

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral…

— Amy Chua

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

— George Bernard Shaw