Moral Issues Quotes - Page 3

• When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Self, Issues, Moral

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.

  Jim Wallis

  Heart, Pay The Price, Issues

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• I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Issues, Moral

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

  Leo Burnett

  Honesty, Issues, Moral

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• Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Issues, Safety

  Theodore Roosevelt (1958). “Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings”

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• I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people are deciding to kill people, but at least they have perhaps some moral argument that they're doing it to ultimately defend their families or prevent some greater evil.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

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• Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

  David Rolf

  Issues, Income, Moral

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Issues, Faces

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Issues, Principles, Moral

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• If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Issues

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• The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

  Irving Kristol

  Two, Issues, Evil

  Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Issues, Long, Red

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• A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

  Azar Nafisi

  Thinking, Issues, Want

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• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Honesty, Unique

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

  Tamora Pierce

  Issues, Answers, Moral

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• I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

  Ian MacKaye

  Stupid, Thinking, Issues

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Issues, Taste

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Issues, Design, Quality

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• Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Issues, Moral, Economic

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• The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

  David Attenborough

  Issues, Fundamentals, Moral

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• What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

  James Hansen

  Children, Issues, Moral

  "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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• There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Differences, Issues

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• I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

  Tom Stoppard

  Issues, Moral, Kind

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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• But then you say, Well, who makes the decision? Does the government make the decision? The reason this is such a national dispute and moral issue for people is because it occurs inside the body of a woman. That makes it really complicated. What are you going to do? Put women in prison? How much do we want the government to intrude on this?

  John H Richardson

  Government, Issues, People

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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