Moral Choices Quotes

• A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Choices Made, Survival, Favors

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.18, Grove Press

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• Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Choices, Way

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  Byron White

  Law, Choices, Morality

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• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Choices, Crowds

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

  Gary L. Francione

  Intelligent, People, Choices

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• Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Choices Made, Atheism, Purpose

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.21, Baker Books

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• There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle.

  Murray Rothbard

  Choices, Liberty, Principles

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• Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

  Anita Roddick

  Shopping, Choices, Moral

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• God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

  Oswald Chambers

  Character, Choices, Doe

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.449, Discovery House

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• Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

  W. H. Auden

  Mean, Government, Choices

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• It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.

  James Cameron

  Animal, Impact, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

  John Ashcroft

  Religious, War, Choices

  "The gospel according to John (Ashcroft)" by Rob Morse, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2002.

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• Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

  Anthony Burgess

  Order, Evil, Choices

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Strong, Humility, Justice

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• When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Issues, Optimism, Choices

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• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  Basil Hume

  Divine Order, Choices, Decision

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• "Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Teacher, Choices, Levels

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.772, Open Road Media

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• Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

  C. S. Lewis

  Judging, Choices, Action

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.84, HarperCollins UK

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• The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

  Anne Cassidy

  Baby, Two, Choices

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• In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Mean, Self, Evil

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• When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.

  Cal Thomas

  Letting Go, Real, Mean

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• The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

  Joel Stein

  Army, Order, People

  "Warriors and wusses". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2006.

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• I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Compassion, Rights

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”, London : Cape

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• Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

  Russell T Davies

  Nice, Drama, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.

  Murray Rothbard

  Freedom, Mean, Responsibility

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