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“Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.”

People Law Social Process Moral Return Morality Negative Input Diminishing Returns

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.”

People World Law Values Opportunity Responsibility Moral Democracy Concepts Majority Convinced Enterprise Rule Of Law Free Enterprise Moral Responsibility

Author:Richard Lugar

“Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.”

Real Would Be Moral Certainty Uncertainty Being Real Wondrous

Book:The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century

Source: The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century

“Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.”

People Hands Moral Virtue Benefits Intellectual Former Latter Moral Virtues

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.”

Needs Christian Values Hurt Lines Space Moral Steps Invisible

Author:John Lydon

“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.”

“A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.”

Giving Doe Spiritual Father Moral Protect Guidance Good Father Basic Things

Author:David Blankenhorn

“If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.”

Ifs Mind Hard Evil Force Moral Degrees Assuming Grants Brutes Degenerates

Author:John Galt

“What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.”

Giving Facts Force Moral Birth Behavior Roots Unbelief Bad Behavior Moral Failure

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.”

Moral Dangerous Convinced Rectitude

Author:Daniel Hannan

“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.”

“I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.”

Needs House Moral Support Mom My Mom Plus Moral Support

Author:Melky Cabrera

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

Thinking Men Moral Imagine Morality Immoral Psychoanalysis Immorality

Author:Sigmund Freud

“God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.”

Doe Character Turns Choices Moral Holy Series Innocence Moral Choices

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.”

Knows Should Character Hate Difficult Answers Fiction Moral I Hate Bloody Dilemma Moral Dilemma

Author:Pat Barker

“Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.”

Justice Moral Issues Rights Kings Threat Civil Rights Jail Luther Magnitude Moral Issues

Author:James Hansen

“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”

“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.”

“The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.”

Humans Sometimes Use Moral Driving Manners Boards Motive Sophisticated Automobile

Author:Charles Mengel Allen

“It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.”

Thinking Mind Humans Evil Easy Race Moral Issues Essentials Disappear Cease Opposition Dissent Invigorating Moral Issues Honing

Author:Jill Tweedie

“The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.”

Moral Novel Study Ethics

Author:Bille August

“I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.”

Moral No Point

Author:Alex Borstein

“There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.”

Ifs Moral Participants

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.”

Men Believe I Believe Moral Active Senses Remorse

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.”

Men Believe I Believe Moral Active Senses Remorse

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.”

Hands Moral Morality Judgment Moral Judgment Moralizing

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.”

Men Humans Has Beens Values Moral Progress Society Currents Skeptic Doubted Human Progress Moral Values Uncivilized

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.”

Thinking Mind Persons Faces Beauty Moral Expression Depends Features Accustomed True Beauty

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.”

Sex Moral Effects Theory Abandoned Old Woman

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.”

Play Universe Sports Justice Moral Records Integrity Protect Pressure Competition Excellence Strive Severe Seriousness

Book:With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.”

Universe Lines Moral Written Morality Documents Ciphers

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.”

Mind Found Cities Moral Virtue Talent Ethics

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.”

Mind States Science Effort Moral Emotional Folks Intellect Observers Open Mind Dispassionate

Author:Wilfred Trotter

“We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.”

Source: Title of liberty

“Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”

Knows Character Moral Awareness Good Character Good Love Moral Strength

Author:Thomas Lickona

“The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from blood-letting and killing, and not surreptitiously fostering it because of their lack of will to change their habits or mode of thinking concerning the animal kingdom.”

Thinking Humanity Animal Responsibility Moral Blood Habit Killing Kingdoms Buddhist Dharma Moral Responsibility Fostering Animal Kingdom

Book:Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness

Source: Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness

“The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.”

Different War Form Turns Decision Situation Moral Issues Military Battle Degrees Constant Factors Wars And Battles

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.”

Littles Two Different Might Moving Science Social Felt Common Race Moral Groups Society Ocean Intellectual Scientist South Climate Communicate Income Psychological Earning Identical Chelsea

Author:C.P. Snow

“Moral certainty is intellectual immorality”

Science Moral Morality Intellectual Intellect Certainty Immorality

Author:Kedar Joshi

“The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.”

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

Feelings Spiritual Moral Virtue Envy Destructive Phenomenon Permit Envious Indignation Envied Guise Vice And Virtue Art Of Loving Righteous Indignation Envy And Success Moral Indignation

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.”

Thinking Humanity Evil Social Moral Tests Examination Social Evils

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.”

Wells Long Law Science Quality Moral Study Limits Ethics Accounts Ethical Laws Of Nature Biological Science

Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.”

Firsts Eye Beauty Moral Dear Deceit Feminine Deficiency

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.”

Children Real Bigs Moral Issues Rocks Behavior Gun Plenty Teenager Significance Crucial Confrontation

Book:Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families

Source: Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families

“(A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'”

Feels Mind Important Eye Sides Moral Fronts Appreciate Managers Employee Sandwiches Billboards Appreciate Me Back Side

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.”

Purpose Values Pleasure Results Emotion Moral Resources Deeper Our Time Who We Are Contentment Humanist

Author:David Shi

“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

Firsts May Problem Sin Simple Poor Moral Rich Economics Envy Driven Remedy Consumerism Consumed Consuming Discontent Simple Living

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

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