Moral Quotes - Page 20

• 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 main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Childhood, Church

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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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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• What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Europe, Sky, Style

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.591, e-artnow

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• After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Decision, Waiting

  Source: russialist.org

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• As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Riding, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

  Peter Boghossian

  Illness, Virtue, Cognitive

  Peter Boghossian (2013). “A Manual for Creating Atheists”, p.150, Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

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• A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

  William Murchison

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

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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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• [This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he will be successful in repulsing your attacks and terrorizing your position.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophical, Successful, Giving

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• There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Law, Essence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.

  Catherine Wilson

  Progress, Benefits, Narrative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Ironic, Compass

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian adopts) and about which actions or moral rules would contribute to maximizing the good. For the rational intuitionist, there are truths about which actions should be done and not done.

  Allen W. Wood

  Done, Maximizing, Matter

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Independent, Deciding What To Do, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.

  Walter Hill

  Book, Kids, Simplicity

  Source: collider.com

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• Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see that Kantian ethics is indeed a kind of virtue ethics, and that it does not "divide the heart from the head" (to anticipate one of your later questions) but instead recognizes the deep truth that reason and emotion are not opposites.

  Allen W. Wood

  Heart, Reason And Emotion, Opposites

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Father, Philosophy, Doctors

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Self, Law, Acting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Russia, Usa

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. Whether it makes someone laugh, or it has a moral to the story - it doesn't have to be an ethical film, but it has to move people. If it doesn't excite me, it's not worth doing - it's better to work on myself and my own life and wait until another great thing comes along.

  Laura Dern

  Moving, Commitment, People

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• I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Believe, Independent, Answers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve it, I haven't promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Strong, Pain, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Strong, Nihilism, Argument

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Ideas, Principles, Ethics

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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