Moral Quotes - Page 23

• [Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

  Ai Weiwei

  Unique, People, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Heart, America

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

  Marina Abramovic

  Dignity, Politician, Nelson

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to God and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. Now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Mean, Political

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• We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

  Richard Rohr

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators anymore ; that's why they have incubators abroad. They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don't have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don't have problems.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Talking, Support, Political

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos have no nervous system. But that's not an issue discussed publicly. The issue is, Are they human? If you are an absolutist moralist, you say, "These cells are human, and therefore they deserve some kind of special moral treatment."

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Issues, Suffering

  Source: inters.org

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• Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

  Richard Dawkins

  Responsibility, Humans, Reasoning

  Source: inters.org

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• There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Years, Psychology

  Source: inters.org

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• Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Should Have, Law

  Source: inters.org

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• The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Who Cares

  Source: inters.org

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• Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

  Richard Dawkins

  Different, Cows, Significance

  Source: inters.org

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• You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

  Jerry Garcia

  Moral Behavior, Hell, Capacity

  Source: medium.com

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• What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.

  Jerry Garcia

  Firsts, Needs, Pieces

  Source: medium.com

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• There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

  Howard Rheingold

  Today, Morality, Problem

  Source: medium.com

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• When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

  Anthony Joshua

  Class, People, Impressive

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when someone wants to actually demand of himself and those who work with him that what they do is not just profitable but good and useful.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Simple, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

  Vera Rubin

  Kind, Moral Code, Code

  Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org

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• I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

  John Cusack

  Saws, Activist, Position

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• I never had a moral problem with being gay.

  George Michael

  Gay, Problem, Being Gay

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• A group of four cardinals wrote to [Pope] Francis accusing him of sowing confusion on important moral issues, and they asked for clarifications. He did not reply. And one of the signatories, the American Cardinal Raymond Burke, said if the pope does not clarify, he will proceed with what he called a formal correction of the pope after Christmas.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Issues, Confusion, Important

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

  Hershel Shanks

  Years, Holocaust, World

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is not something, however, that I have taught or written about. This has been, if you wish, a private aspect.

  Hershel Shanks

  Religious, Book, Wish

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying, Doe, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, War, Joy

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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