Moral Quotes - Page 18

• Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?

  Kevin Keck

  Book, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Religious, Common Sense, Middle Path

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.

  Paul Bloom

  Thinking, Compassion, Shoes

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

  Paul Bloom

  Empathy, Stories, Pleasure

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Again, although I'm not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are moral imperatives to fight back. As Daniel Berrigan says, "We're called to do the good." And then we have to let it go. It's not our job to know where the good goes.

  Chris Hedges

  Religious, Jobs, Fighting

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  Benjamin Crump

  Innocent Person, People, Police

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

  Richard Marshall

  Ideas, Philosopher, Postmodern

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Prayer, Believe

  "Inside The Nationwide Tour To Support 'Godly Leaders'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

  Tom Shadyac

  Jesus, Teaching, Catholic

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• Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.

  Errol Morris

  Hurt, Revenge, Book

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

  Richard Marshall

  Thinking, Way, Ethics

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthetic dimension of morality, that we use concepts like grace to characterise people who do their duty with ease and pleasure.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  People, Grace, Use

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The cool thing about Watchmen is it has this really complicated question that it asks, which is: who polices the police or who governs the government? Who does God pray to? Those are pretty deep questions but also pretty fun questions. Kind of exciting. It tries to subvert the superhero genre by giving you these big questions, moral questions. Why do you think you're on a fun ride? Suddenly you're like how am I supposed to feel about that?

  Zack Snyder

  Fun, Thinking, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some real sympathy with the work of those moral realists who have tried to give naturalistic accounts of human flourishing, and who offer accounts of right action in such terms. (I suppose this is more evidence that I really do have deep affinities with Aristotle!)

  Hilary Kornblith

  Real, Philosophical, Ideas

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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