Best Moral Sense Quotes

61 Moral Sense quotes by 46 unique authors

• Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In… — Sherman Alexie
• Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln
• The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art… — George Inness
• It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral… — Eric Hoffer
• Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most… — Henry Adams
• The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in… — Erwin Griswold
• Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress… — Karel Capek
• Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than… — Yann Martel
• What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies… — Henry David Thoreau
• They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole,… — David Duke
• The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular. — Mark Twain
• We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
• The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. — Paul Bettany
• Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a… — Jared Diamond
• The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral… — Ronald Fisher
• Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. — Jonathan Haidt
• I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I… — Louisa May Alcott
• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god. — Ian Mcewan
• You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. — Gertrude Stein
• The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a… — Sam Harris
• In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his… — Flannery O'Connor
• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest… — Oscar Wilde
• Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy… — Robert A. Heinlein
• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and… — Primo Levi

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46 authors contributed a total of 61 Moral Sense Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 8 Moral Sense Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 4 Moral Sense Quotes by Charles Darwin
• 2 Moral Sense Quotes by Paul Bloom
• 2 Moral Sense Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Moral Sense Quotes by Gordon Brown
• 2 Moral Sense Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Yann Martel
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Steven Pinker
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Sherman Alexie
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Samuel Adams
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Sam Harris
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Ronald Fisher
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Roald Dahl
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Rex Stout
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Primo Levi
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Peggy Noonan
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Paul Bettany
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Louisa May Alcott
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Karel Capek
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Jonathan Haidt
• 1 Moral Sense Quote by Jimmy Carter