Moral Quotes · Page 114

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

— Joan Halifax

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

— Paul Gauguin

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an…

— Margherita Hack

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

— Kane

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

— Pliny the Elder

The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your…

— Hans Hartung

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth…

— Jesse McCartney

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I…

— Alan Greenspan

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify…

— Tony Blair

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the…

— Ida Tarbell

Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of…

— Peter Drucker

Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As…

— John B. S. Haldane

If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must…

— Frederick Hart

Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring…

— Mark Twain

But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;…

— David Hume

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies…

— John Haynes Holmes

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle…

— Michael Josephson

The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of…

— Adam Phillips

Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the…

— Evelyn Waugh

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and…

— N. Scott Momaday

'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of…

— Samuel Adams

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our…

— C. S. Lewis

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

— Claire Coffee

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that…

— Joni Mitchell

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of…

— John Adams

Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has…

— Hershel Shanks

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...

— Albert Einstein

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human…

— Avital Ronell

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at…

— Jon Krakauer

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I…

— Gza

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

— James Q. Wilson

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ...…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

— Noam Chomsky

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's…

— Fred Armisen

“She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.”

— Alexander McCall Smith