Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

F. Sionil Jose

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Gary Bauer

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G.K. Chesterton

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Christopher Hitchens

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Chris Noth

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Charles Sumner

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Herbert Read

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

Ellen Burstyn

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

Bruce Feirstein

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

Bayard Taylor

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charles Baudelaire

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Claire Coffee

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Greg Graffin

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

George Orwell

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Honore de Balzac

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Howard Hodgkin

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Howard Mumford Jones

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Herman Kahn