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“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

“But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.”

World Firsts Heart Stories Problem Sin Poor Pay Moral Issues Consequence Climate Climate Change Around The World Global Warming Pay The Price Affluent Moral Issues

Author:Jim Wallis

“The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.”

“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.”

Looks Stills Problem America Moral Solutions England Divorce Multiple Penalties Adultery Death Penalty Serials Auras Polygamy New England

Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.”

World Made Philosophy Problem Values Evil Sin Deals Moral Ethics Concerned Universal Distinction Good And Evil Significance Spheres Provinces Evaluation Valuation

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.”

Problem Might Moral Saws Fit Judgment Solutions Economics Ultimate Fruit Toil Distribution Mills Calculus Moral Judgment

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.”

Knows Giving Problem Political Term Accepting Moral Issues Trouble Giving Up Understood Not Giving Up Autonomy Ethos Practicality Do Not Give Up History Making

Book:C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

Source: C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

“Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.”

People Mean Ideas Problem Political Moral Democracy Issues Policy Claims Crisis Revolutionary Agency Governance Democracies Have Revolutionary Ideas

Author:Bill Moyers

“I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.”

Source: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009

“The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.”

Problem Government Lying Challenges Answers Moral Politician Truth Is Our Family Our Society Breakdown

Author:Marco Rubio

“Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.”

Ifs Problem Wisdom Used Politics Moral Economy Concern Conviction Liberalism Preacher

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.”

Needs Humans Sometimes Problem Values Human Beings Moral Principles Appreciate Intelligence Warm Marvelous Constructive Sameness Moral Principles Most Meaningful Learn To Appreciate

Author:Dalai Lama

“we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.”

Made Problem Today Moral Morality Absolutes Extraordinary Patient Medical Yesterday Sinner Transition Relativism Moral Relativism

Author:Ellen Goodman

“I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.”

Men Believe Wells Problem Hate Nations Race Moral Hatred Solve Fiber Moral Fiber

Book:How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature

Source: How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature

“The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.”

Ends Country Problem Religious Cities Moral Awful Lifts Suggestions

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.”

Problem Community Deals Moral Issues Ignorance Prejudice Mental Health Ill Lgbt Stigma Collide Blight Health Issues

Author:Stephen Fry

“The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.”

Problem Universe Responsibility Moral Moral Responsibility

Author:Sherman Alexie

“All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

People Ifs Needs Problem Law Poor Money Moral Crime Easier Poor People

Book:I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.”

Problem Political Moral Emotional Competition Conundrums

Book:Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

Source: Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

“problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.”

“Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.”

Problem Social Term Responsibility Moral Subjects Physics Justify Behaviour Scorn Bourgeoisie Moral Responsibility Withering

Book:An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

Source: An Interpretation of Christian Ethics

“People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'”

People Way Problem Deals Moral Prison Population Nerves Prisoner Prison Population

Author:Stockwell Day

“And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.”

Problem Purpose Choices Moral Sea Land Security Absolutes Appeals Presenting Unrest Singleness

Book:Twixt Land and Sea

Source: Twixt Land and Sea

“The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.”

Source: Prejudices Second Series

“A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?”

Firsts Problem Body Lasts Courses Evil Moral Crime Disease Roots Trade Tired Complexes Strikes Employment Dishes Discouraged Undermining Physical Health Complex Problems Underemployment

Author:Maud Younger

“In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.”

Humans Matter Problem Lasts Political Values Language Common Moral Standards Court Affair Experiments Resorts Atomic Bomb Common Language

Author:Emilio G. Segre

“All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.”

Problem Would Be Earth Together Heaven Moral Overwhelming Heaven And Earth

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.”

People May Problem Government Hurt Moral Criminals

Author:Milton Friedman

“I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.”

Thinking Firsts Philosophy Problem Answers Moral Cases Physics Awful Neuroscience Relevance Obsolete Rendering Philosophy Of Science Moral Philosophy

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”

War Problem Peace Moral Weapons Solutions Just One Guarantees Anti War Antiwar Make Peace Not War Peace Not War

Book:Hemingway on War

Source: Hemingway on War

“Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.”

Persons Problem Values Left Moral Democracy Groups Authority Democratic Expected Debate Genuine Rational Regimes Rulers Vigilance Cooperatives Legal System Theocracy Moral Authority

Author:Mario Bunge

“Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.”

World Problem Suffering Social Challenges Justice Poor Moral Economic Citizens Social Justice Climate Climate Change Excess Technological Linked

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.”

“I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.”

People Thinking Giving Should Problem Government Artist Moral Healthcare Giving Money

Author:Chester Brown

“The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.”

People Want Feels Problem Race Moral Audience Feel Good

Author:Wesley Morris

“When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.”

Problem Culture Social Religious Education Moral Serious Drug Racism Addiction Gaps Drug Addiction Drug Addict Social Problems Moral Education

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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