Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up ...

An Abundance of Katherines

Because Muhammad is considered Allah's final prophet and the Quran the eternal, unalterable words of Allah himself, there is also no evolving morality that permits the modification or integration of Islamic morality with that from other sources. The ...

Islam: Evil in the Name of God

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradi...

Kate Bernheimer

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of m...

Alasdair McIntyre

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

Beyond Good and Evil

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Their Morals and Ours

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Rex Stout

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Noam Chomsky

Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.

The Origin And Development Of The Moral Ideas

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

Bobby Rush

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Joseph de Maistre

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

Jerry Springer

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal

Life

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to all...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are required to make a rock. So why no...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

The False Principle of Our Education