Morally Quotes
437 quotes by 352 authors
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Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
— Pope John Paul II
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But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness…
— Jonathan Haidt
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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the…
— Philip Caputo
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be…
— Unknown Author
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The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man…
— John Dewey
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
— Vaclav Havel
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
— Gloria Steinem
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Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
— Vince Lombardi
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...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically…
— Juan Somavia
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Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common…
— Pope John Paul II
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Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm…
— Pope John Paul II
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Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people…
— Ed Crane
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As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only…
— Ayn Rand
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Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so…
— Ban Ki-moon
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It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that…
— Arthur Goldberg
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You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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