Best Moral Sense Quotes
61 Moral Sense quotes by 46 unique authors
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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
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
— Jonathan Haidt
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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
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
— Ian Mcewan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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