Quotes of: Morality Keyword

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness ...

A Wizard of Earthsea

Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has b...

Frank Zappa

The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery sl...

Criss Jami

Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their morality and ethics to fit w...

Bertrand Russell

In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equali...

Alija Izetbegovic

One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral ps...

Life

Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose. The claim is that the new paradigm can actually influence — legitimately — our choice of basic values in the first pl...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

The Cause

Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .

Bad Daughter

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.

number9dream

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

The Orphan Sky

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Andrew Young

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

Karen Mills

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

Susan Minot

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Tom Ford

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

Tippi Hedren

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

Ken Livingstone

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

Katherine Webb

The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.

M.F. Moonzajer

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

Michael Moore