Moral Quotes - Page 39

• Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

  Alan Greenspan

  Believe, Facts, Merit

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• Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Freedom, Anchors, Intellectual

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• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  Gary Hamel

  Religious, People, Sometimes

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.101, John Wiley & Sons

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• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Yield, Comfort

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• Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Excellence, Directors

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• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

  Thomas Hardy

  Argument, Poet, Manners

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Hand Of Ethelberta”, p.26, Thomas Hardy

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• The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Use, Landscape

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• I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

  Steve Harvey

  Believe, Talking, Want

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

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• I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

  David Hasselhoff

  Play, People, Tears

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• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Love, Life, Family

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Tradition, Reason, Products

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• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Men, Savages, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (1922). “Books and Habits”

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• I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

  Tippi Hedren

  Strong, Parent, Backgrounds

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• Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

  Lillian Hellman

  Belief, Responsible, Believer

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• Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Abuse, Afternoon, Littles

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

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• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

  Arthur Henderson

  Peace, Powerful, Intellectual

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• Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Rejection, Scream

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2006.

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• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Ideas, Preference

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• Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Kids, Littles

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

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• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  Basil Hume

  Divine Order, Choices, Decision

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Pockets, Disease, Should

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Aldous Huxley

  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

  Thomas Huxley

  Purpose, Credit, Virtue

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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• Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Giving, Vision, Doe

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2002). “Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction”

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