Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Marian Wright Edelman

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

William Weld

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Malcolm Gladwell

I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.

Margo MacDonald

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

William Masters

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded...

On Being Human: Reflections on Life and Living

Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. T...

Women

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intel...

Anonymous

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Peter Boghossian

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

Russell Brand

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

Pope Shenouda III

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Heffernan

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

Rebecca MacKinnon

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Auberon Herbert

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

C.S. Lewis

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

Julian Baggini