Quotes of: Moral-issue Keyword

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Julie Burchill

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Jeanne Calment

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Cheever

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Debasish Mridha

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Edmund Burke

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

Herman Kahn

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

Joyce Carol Oates

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

John Podhoretz

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Joel C. Rosenberg

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Jeffrey Tucker

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Damian Lewis

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

Jefferson Davis

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

Josh Fox

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Jonathan Haidt

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

John F. Kennedy

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Alan Dershowitz

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Ernest Renan

Ricardo Morales: Choose carefully. Memories are all we end up with. At least pick the nice ones.

The Secret in Their Eyes

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Theodor Adorno