Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

Five Moral Pieces

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

Burr

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Huston Smith

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Lou Reed

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

Paul Bloom

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Sam Harris

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Khushwant Singh

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

Pallam Raju

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Dennis Prager

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Bob Ney

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

G.K. Chesterton

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

G.K. Chesterton

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Confucius

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

John Perry Barlow

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.

David Clennon