Moral Quotes - Page 16

• We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you need to replace it with a shared moral code. Otherwise, everybody becomes very self-centred and materialistic.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Self, Ideas, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

  Tim Crane

  Followers, May, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

  Harold Ramis

  Lessons, Pay, Scripts

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Numbers, Issues

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Unseen, Hope And Faith, Force

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Ideas, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Strong, Lying, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Running, Men, Ethics

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

  Michael Sandel

  Exercise, Thinking, Medicine

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• One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Opportunity, Moral Growth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Engineering, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Teaching, Humility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

  Michael Sandel

  Kids, Differences, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Thinking, Cells

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

  Michael Sandel

  Jewish Tradition, Views, Catholic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

  Cass McCombs

  Enemy, Trying, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So, first, I wanted to be a part of the project because I thought it was an important story to tell. On top of that, it's rare to find roles for strong, young, feisty women, especially in a military film. And I love that Suarez ends up being the moral compass of the story, and that she's also brave enough to stand up to all these men.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Strong, Military, Men

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 12, 2015.

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• I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.

  John Amaechi

  Thinking, Order, Needs

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.

  Mike Berenstain

  Spiritual, Children, Simple

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

  Francoise Mouly

  Waiting, Adults, Minutes

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.

  Louis Menand

  Jobs, Numbers, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.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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• It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Addiction, People

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

  Taryn Manning

  Spiritual, Grateful, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

  Frank Luntz

  Stupid, Principles, Lasts

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