Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.

Vivienne Westwood

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bi...

Eli Pariser

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater t...

Chris Christie

I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concern...

Ends and Means

What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of enmity and hatred have been sown...

The Monist

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by ou...

Gary L. Francione

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

A Different Blue

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

Dancer from the Dance

God could learn a little about love and morality from us. If there’s anyone who needs redemption, it’s God.

The Dead Will Rise First

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

Desierto: Memories of the Future

Nicioadata nu aprob sau dezaprob un lucru, e o atitudine absurda fata de viata. Nu suntem trimisi in lume ca sa ne exibitionam prejudecatile morale" - Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

The Eyre Affair

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

East of Eden

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

The Ellison Effect

I've learned far too much to know everything.

Everyone Agrees: Book I: Words, Ideas, and a Universal Morality

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Fearlessly Feminine

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Fanny's First Play