Best Moral Decisions Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise”

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Author:Cormac McCarthy

“The way that we think is dependent upon our flowering formal and informal education. How we think affects our behavior. How we conduct ourselves in the unscripted interactions with our family, friends, and lovers alters our emotional being. Our emotional being funnels our thought processes. Our community modulates our actions and establishes standards for behavior, and our logical reasoning and moral reasoning skills evolve as we mature. The didactical association between education, thinking, behaving, communal relationships, and the ongoing process of making logical and moral decisions continues to shape unions and disunions of our transforming character.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.”

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Book:The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.”

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Author:Karl Popper

“Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.”

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Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.”

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Author:Tabatha Coffey

“What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.”

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Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.”

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Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."”

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Author:Joel Stein

“I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.”

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Author:Paul Bloom

“Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.”

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Author:Tim Kaine

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”

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Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

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Author:A. S. Byatt

“Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.”

“... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.”

“Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.”

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Book:Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

“Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”

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Book:Ilustrado: A Novel

Source: Ilustrado: A Novel

“It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.”

Source: Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers

“Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.”

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Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places