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Moral Action Quotes

“For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.”

Action Remember Choices Memories Moral Remember You Remembers You Moral Action

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?”

Ifs Action Moral Taken Cost Benefits Majority Minorities Expenses Moral Action

Author:Garth Nix

“Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.”

People Wisdom Action Suffering Moral Clear Empathy Immoral Moral Action

Author:David Brooks

“Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.”

Wells Done Action Moral Sacrifice Worst Involved Morality Hallmark Deliberation Moral Action

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.”

Feels Heart Stills Action Form Speak Consciousness Moral Democracy Gratitude Conscience Consequence Abundance Have Faith Invites Disobedience Civil Disobedience Moral Action

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.”

People Thinking War Action Suffering Moral Too Much Violence Empathy Weight Favors Scales Innocent Catalyst Pacifist Moral Action

Author:Paul Bloom

“But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”

Men Stills Eye Action Night Reading Literature Moral Knowing Sky Thousand Worship Greek Night Sky Great Literature Moral Action

Book:An Experiment in Criticism

Source: An Experiment in Criticism

“Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.”

Enough Action Spiritual Moral Depth Good Moral Moral Action

Author:Thomas Merton

“Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.”

Ifs Men Character Action Moral Morality Agents Incapable Free Man Moral Character Moral Action

Book:Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

Source: Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

“If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.”

Ifs May Action Christian Spirit Found Powerful Moral Principles Changed Holy Naked Operations Holy Spirit Great Day Moral Action

Book:Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

Source: Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

“I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.”

Action Forget Moral Anxiety Eternity Contemplation Aesthetic Suggesting Moral Action

Book:Theology's Strange Return

Source: Theology's Strange Return

“Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.”

Has Beens Done Action Names Moral Believer Moral Action

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.”

Two Action Past Political Belief Moral Pieces Expression Theory Ought Concepts Moral Action

Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”

Action Moral Knowing Worship Individuality Privilege Wounds Heal Undermining Moral Action

Author:C. S. Lewis

“[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction or what appears to be nonaction. That's a hard concept for Western audiences. . . . We wanted to show a kind of moral action, a spiritual action, an emotional action. Some people will pick up on it; some won't.”

People Thinking Kind Hard Shows Government Action Wanted Spiritual Moral Audience Emotional Hero Battle Picks Concepts Western Crafts Oppressors Moral Action

Author:Martin Scorsese

“The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.”

Action Religion Consciousness Moral Ought Depth Tension Dimensions Bows Arrows Moral Action

Book:An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

Source: An Interpretation of Christian Ethics