Moral Issues Quotes - Page 2

• All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

  Ken Caldeira

  Issues, Risk, Growth

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• My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

  Lawrence Lessig

  Issues, People, Moral

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• Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

  Stephanie Mills

  Issues, Moral, Lifestyle

  Stephanie Mills (1989). “Whatever Happened to Ecology?”, Random House (NY)

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• I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Issues, People

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. September 12, 2008.

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• The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Wisdom, Issues, Politics

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• More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice.  Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision.  And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith.  You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.

  Jim Wallis

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.

  Jane Addams

  Men, Thinking, Issues

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• Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Issues, Morality, Court

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• I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Issues, Income

  "Bernie Sanders Goes Biblical on Income Inequality". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2015.

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• Everything that I'm seeing in America, when it comes to the groundwater contamination and the poisoning of people I see, it's a moral issue. Nobody's ever gonna convince me that a CEO wouldn't care if his own child was poisoned.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, America, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.

  T. D. Jakes

  Sex, Talking, Issues

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• A group of four cardinals wrote to [Pope] Francis accusing him of sowing confusion on important moral issues, and they asked for clarifications. He did not reply. And one of the signatories, the American Cardinal Raymond Burke, said if the pope does not clarify, he will proceed with what he called a formal correction of the pope after Christmas.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Issues, Confusion, Important

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to this generation I believe is the climate crisis. It's a national security issue, it's a health issue in terms of clean air, it's a competitiveness issue in terms of innovation and it's a moral issue to preserve the planet for the next generation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Believe, Air

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.

  Bill McKibben

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day, but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.

  Tim Kaine

  Motivation, Issues, Decision

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham.

  Malcolm X

  Issues, Looks, Speech

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

  Edward Kennedy

  Issues, Moral, Compromise

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

  Michael Coren

  Gun, Issues, Favour

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• There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Struggle, Rights

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.

  Al Gore

  Issues, People, Political

  "The 79th Annual Academy Awards". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Heart, Biblical

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• There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Integrity, Knowledge

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.101, Penguin

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• Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

  James Hansen

  Kings, Jail, Issues

  "James Hansen on the Tar Sands Pipeline Protest, the Obama Administration and Intergenerational Justice". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2011.

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• It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

  Jill Tweedie

  Thinking, Race, Issues

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• The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

  Pope John Paul II

  Issues, Environmental, Moral

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