“I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.” WorldWantActionLawConsciousnessMoralOur LivesEventsMoralityHarmonyImpulseInherentOur ActionsAesthetics Author:Naum Gabo
“The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.” ShouldMoralIssuesOur LivesPolicySpheresPublic Policy Author:Barney Frank
“We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.” NeedsBelieveHumansKindStatesLife IsHumanityMoralOur LivesAliveJudgingDutyPersonalityObligationPrimariesPerformingMaintainingWorth LivingRenounceLife Is Worth LivingGood Moral Author:Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth.” MeanLongMadeIdeasEarthMoralOur LivesRevolutionCreaturesRelatedWho We AreLife Means Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.” IfsActionChoicesMoralPrinciplesOur LivesExerciseBlessedAgencyRighteousOur ActionsBeing Blessed Author:L. Lionel Kendrick
“A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.” IfsGivingReasonValuesChoicesMoralPathOur LivesMoralityEthicsRootsSlaveDefinitionsAlternativesCodeMeaning Of LifeNo ReasonVacuumsLife MeansMoral CodeBereftCode Of Ethics Author:Dave Galanter
“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.” FeelsWellsWarStatesWaterReligiousPayMoralOur LivesSacrificeLandHonestDutyCitizensTaxesAuthorityOrganizationRegardFellowsBillsIncomeObligationGasElectricityDeclarationBehalfUtilityCivicsSuppliesIncome TaxCivic DutyMoral Duty Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.” WaySoulMomentsFightingLostMoralPovertyOur LivesMaterialsShapesAncientLiberationIndifferenceAttachmentConsumerismAthleticOverconsumptionFling Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.” MenNeedsCharacterSpiritualLyingSocialJusticeAbilityMoralCreativeOur LivesSocial JusticeInstrumentsMissilesMisguidedMisuseSpiritual PowerOutrunLiving A LiePersonal Character Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.” CertainMoralOur LivesHabitActivityPerfectionSubstanceGood Habits Author:Thomas Merton
“Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.” HumansFormMoralOur LivesDependsEndeavorRecognizingPromotingCloningMoral LifePlaying GodHuman Cloning Author:Alex Epstein
“I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.” ThinkingWantedDesireMoralOur LivesOffersJokesOppositesDetailsConfusion Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day, but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.” ShouldImportantMotivationDecisionMoralIssuesOur LivesMoralityFundamentalsEnthusiasmConvincingMoral Issues Author:Tim Kaine
“Pope Francis has taught us by his example how we can witness with our lives and actions to our faith and moral principles, but still engage respectfully with those who disagree. He's urged us to find a "new balance," going beyond the few wedge issues of our politics, so we do not lose the "freshness and fragrance of the Gospel."” StillsActionLosesMoralPrinciplesIssuesOur LivesExampleTaughtBalanceWitnessDisagreePopeFragranceTaught UsFreshnessMoral PrinciplesWedges Author:John I. Jenkins