M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.”
“Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.”
“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.”
“moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.”
Source: The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition
“Moral concepts do not move about within a hard world set up by science and logic. They set up, for different purposes, a different world.”
Source: The Sovereignty of Good
“Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully.”
“Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.”
“Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.”
Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons
“Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.”
“Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.”
“Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.”
Source: Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men”
“Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.”
“Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.”
“Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.”
“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”
“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.”
“Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.”
“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.”
Source: How Now Shall We Live?
“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”
“Moral decisions. She had thought she was done with them. You did your best and then wondered for the rest of your life if you'd done the right thing.”
Source: A change in the lighting
“Moral dilemmas are not to test your manners, but to teach you a good lesson. It’s your choice to understand it or not”
“Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.”
“Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.”
“Moral distance processes tend to provide a foundation upon which other killing-enabling processes can be built. In general they are less likely to produce atrocities than cultural distance processes, and they are more in keeping with the kind of "rules" (deterring aggression and upholding individual human dignity) that organizations such as the United Nations have attempted to uphold. But as with cultural distance, there is a danger associated with moral distance. That danger is, of course, that every nation seems to think that God is on its side.”
Source: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
“Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.”
“Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.”
“Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.”
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
“Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.”
“Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Sumner
“Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.”
“Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.”
Source: Greek and Roman Lives
“Moral growth corresponds with people’s ability to see the world from an ever-increasing number of perspectives and act accordingly.”
Source: Co-Human Harmony: Using Our Shared Humanity to Bridge Divides
“Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.”
“Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.”
“Moral indignation is a bad counsellor.”
Source: The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies
“moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.”
“Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
“Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Moral is doing the wrong and Ethics is doing the right”
“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.”
“Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift”
“Moral ist eine Landkarte. Aber eine, die nicht im Boden verankert ist, sondern im Menschen selbst. Sie zeigt nicht, wo du bist, sondern wer du sein willst.”
Source: Was uns Menschen bleibt: Ein philosophischer Roman über den Mut, Mensch zu sein
“Moral judgment is not a purely cerebral affair in which we weight concerns about harm, rights, and justice. It's a kind of rapid, automatic process more akin to the judgments animals make as they move through the world, feeling themselves drawn toward or away from various things.”
“Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.”
“Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.”