Quotes of: Moral-courage Keyword

The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent because a great deal of law implicitly "imposes" a particular moral view on the wider society. It would b...

God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, auto...

Atlas Shrugged

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible becaus...

Gary L. Francione

The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both t...

Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuabl...

Gary L. Francione

Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.

Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Courage is so rare nowadays, that one gets cornered for having courage of conviction and living by one’s ideals. However it is great to be cornered, since the corner with courage is never too crowded.

Karma Kurry for the Mind, Body, Heart & Soul

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as...

David Letterman

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifi...

Rob Lowe

I actually do enjoy the Kardashians' show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show - I'm just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people a...

Casey Wilson

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

Blaine Lee Pardoe

The courage to dream, the courage to act.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Eddie Rickenbacker

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

Gabrielle Giffords

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

There are three friends in this world: courage, sense, and insight.

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