Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-malefi...

Sherwin B. Nuland

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Emma Goldman

If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.

John Ridley

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

Alan Arkin

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

Asghar Farhadi

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

Allen Ginsberg

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Ayn Rand

Life is too short to cry for anything so smile and do what makes you happy with morals

Abdelrahman Sabry

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Alan Watts

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

Pope Benedict XVI

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Billy Graham

That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder.

Love

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

Vladimir Putin

Look for a GOOD NEWS story to tell. This is much better than gossip in increasing morale.

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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Zebulon Pike

I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

Erika Slezak

When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.

Jonathan Haidt

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

Peter Singer

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Annie Lennox

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

John Stuart Mill