Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered... — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image