Moral Quotes - Page 30

• When Donald Trump had all of his opponents, when he had critics in his party saying what you`re calling for in terms of deportation of all 11 million is not practical, it`s not plausible, some were saying it is not moral, why wouldn`t he make argument then?

  Steve Kornacki

  Party, Calling, Opponents

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

  Gary L. Francione

  Flesh, Pounds, Plant

  5 Copy quote

• The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Father, Son, Men

  4 Copy quote

• The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  War, Hours, Determine

  5 Copy quote

• I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.

  Andrew Linzey

  Philosophy, Animal, Rights

  7 Copy quote

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

  William Murchison

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

  4 Copy quote

• [T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

  H. Verlan Andersen

  Religious, Responsibility, Government

  4 Copy quote

• The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.

  Eugene Genovese

  Reality, Men, Information

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Perspective, Political

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Tasks, Matter, Firsts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.

  Allen W. Wood

  Principles, Doe, Doctrine

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

  Allen W. Wood

  Law, May, Regard

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

  Allen W. Wood

  Feelings, Virtue, Certain

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Restaurants, Should

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Years, America

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Nihilism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Nihilism, Argument

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Philosophy, Long, Nihilism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Giving, Support, Advice

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Rights, Giving, Together

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source