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Moral Quotes by Julian Baggini
- Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are…
- You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to…
- The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
- Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.
- If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about…
- One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and…
- Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work…
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac