Moral Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Christian, Spiritual, Civilization

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• Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.

  Andrew Linzey

  Beauty, Education, Creativity

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• The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Animal, Justice, Intellectual

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• Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be made better. It's a moral obligation to try to improve things a little bit at a time.

  Phil Libin

  Trying, World, Littles

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• There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.

  Ted Cruz

  School, Mean, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.

  Cass Sunstein

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

  Tom Hayden

  Political, Winner, Made

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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 want our children's children to be free to walk safely down the street, girls to attend school, and women to work. I hope we continue to have freedom to wear what we want, worship how we want, study what we want, publish what we want while assuming personal responsibility for one's moral character.

  Julie Carmen

  Girl, Children, School

  "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

  Andrew Solomon

  Responsibility, Luxury, Anxiety

  "Foreign correspondent Andrew Solomon on 'Far and Away,' Gadhafi's Libya". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 2016.

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• I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Levels, Cynicism

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.

  Sharon Gannon

  Order, Needs, Purpose

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

  Sharon Gannon

  Greed, Compass, Habit

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Acceptance, Animal, Reality

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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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, Compromise, Treats

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  President, Way, Clinton

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

  Tim Kaine

  Decision, Matter, Intimacy

  "Hillary Clinton Picks Her VP Nominee: Who Is Tim Kaine?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 23, 2016.

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• It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

  Don Cheadle

  Responsibility, Firsts, Protect

  "Climate Champions speak out: Don Cheadle on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

  James Ellroy

  Profound, Addresses, Needed

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Animal, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

  Paul Simon

  Challenges, Poverty, Results

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• Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Destiny, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.11, 谷月社

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