Cultural sensitivity is no excuse for moral blindness.

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always…

— African Spir

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But…

— Tan France

“When disagreement turns to enmity, the result is almost always moral blindness on all sides. History is distorted, collectivities are demeaned, theological reasoning ignored,…

— Anonymous

“I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness… Sensitivity denies equal access to language.…

— Scott M. Roberts

“To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“Know your audience! With the high level of cultural sensitivity these days, it is often better to err on the side of caution. If…

— Susan C. Young

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils…

— John Quincy Adams

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

— Frederic Raphael

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in…

— Samuel Richardson

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with…

— Harry S. Truman

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

— Kenan Malik

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

— Rob Thurman

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson