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“MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.”
“Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Moral lessons are intrinsically built to contradict the dictates of the guts… If you had no such moral lessons to assimilate in your life, you were better off. You were more inclined to rely on your gut feeling.
A reformer, therefore, went beyond the dictates of his guts.”
Source: Light Inspired
“Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.”
Source: Teaching Character Education through Literature
“Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”
“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the ultimate meaning of morality.”
“Moral måste komma från hjärtat, inte hagiografier.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.”
“Moral nihilism is a very real risk of shattered endoreality. So is apathy.”
“Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.”
Source: Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources
“Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character.”
Source: Sweet Destiny
“Moral of story: if you are a flesh-eating monster, do not let the chattering monkey insert a bang-stick in your mouth while you’re trying to snack down on its brains. Seriously, no good will come of this.”
“Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.”
“Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.”
“Moral outrage is the opposite of God; it only divides and separates what God wants for us, which is to be united in kinship. Moral outrage doesn't lead us to solutions - it keeps us from them. It keeps us from moving forward toward a fuller, more compassionate response to members of our community who belong to us, no matter what they've done.”
Source: Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They are not satisfied with simply despising and condemning their neighbour themselves, they want the condemnation to be universal and supreme: that is, that all men should rise as one against the condemned, and that even the offender's own conscience shall be against him. Then only are they fully satisfied and reassured. Nothing on earth but morality could lead to such wonderful results.”
Source: All Things are Possible
“Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, ‘Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can’t talk about cannibalism!’ The other is to say, ‘Well, actually, what is wrong with cannibalism?’ Then you work it out and you tease it out and you decide yes, actually, cannibalism is wrong, but for the following reasons. So I’d like to think that my moral values at least partly come from reasoning. Trying to suppress the gut reaction as much as possible. ["Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?", The Guardian, 9 June 2015]”
“Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.”
Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.”
“Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.”
“Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.”
“Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“Moral principle is a form of personal religion.”
“Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.”
“Moral principle is the foundation of law.”
“Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.”
“Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.”
Source: Authority and the Individual
“Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.”
“Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.”
“Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.”
“Moral relativism has undoubtedly fragmented society, making it much easier for people with extreme views to secure an audience.”
“Moral Relativism is a widespread disease.”
Source: Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
“Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.”
“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.”
“Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”
Source: Theological texts
“Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.”
Source: Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker
“Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre”
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”
“Moral significance is as necessary as material success.”
“Moral spontaneity" corresponds entirely with "religious and orthodox philosophy", "constitutional monarchy", "the Christian state", "freedom with certain limits", or in a figure, to the hero fetters to a sick bed.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“Moral stains are wiped clean with the passing of the transgressor. They do not pass down to their descendants or others of the same faith or ethnicity through osmosis. Those using the very notion of inherited guilt as a stick to beat others with are revealing more about their problematic natures than anyone bearing their accusations.”