Quotes of: Moral-courage Keyword

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Traditional

For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself...

Islam at the Crossroads

We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.

The Sunday Philosophy Club

...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.

From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enfor...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adhere...

Jane Smiley

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Now I was nothing but a shade of grey - my moral compass ambiguous.

Onyx

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

P. J. O'Rourke

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Leo Burnett

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Leon Wieseltier

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Michael Biehn

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

Marian Wright Edelman

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

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was t...

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse