Moral Quotes - Page 38

• Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

  Mary Douglas

  Pretension, Destructive, Superiority

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• Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

  Will Durant

  Environmental, Morality, Moral Code

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• Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

  Marguerite Duras

  Impossible, Journalism, Journalist

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

  Terry Eagleton

  Christian, Party, Practice

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Moral Values, Values

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

  Havelock Ellis

  Wish, Firsts, Becoming

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.25, Elsevier

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• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Two Sides, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.690, Library of America

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• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Strength, Courage, Umpires

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

  William Feather

  Children, Lying, Manners

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• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

  Francois Fenelon

  Life, Success, Religious

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• State sanctioned marriage is a civil contract period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Religious, Party, Agreement

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  Larry Flynt

  Life, Cash, Outlook

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Sex, Race, Racism

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• The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Order, Opposites

  Pope Francis (2015). “Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday”, p.18, Image

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• There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Envy, Feelings

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge

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• Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

  Northrop Frye

  Country, Making Money, Social

  "The Northrop Frye Quote Book".

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• First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Teenager, White, Community

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

  Dick Gephardt

  Share, Fortune, Obligation

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2016

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• Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  People, Culture, Tvs

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Catholic, Church, Kitsch

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• While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

  Al Gore

  Real, Coward, President

  "Gore blasts Bush on environment". www.cnn.com. January 15, 2004.

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• Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Play, Roles

  "Civil disobedience has a role to play". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

  Billy Graham

  Speaks Out, Issues, Race

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• I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

  Ashley Greene

  Growing Up, Foundation, Different

  Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2011.

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