Morality Quotes - Page 17

• Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Law, Consistency, Mind

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• There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.

  John Stuart Mill

  Real, Evil, Protect

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• Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Ethics

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

  Michael Hastings

  Violence, Skepticism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Dresses, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

  Robert Baer

  Effectiveness, Drones, Firsts

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.

  Sam Hamill

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Compassion

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Liberty, Target, World

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.

  Patricia Churchland

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Nausea, Evolution

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• [Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged
  people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Reason, Interest

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• First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: "Thou
  shalt not lie," there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Men, What Matters

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• Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Class, Two, Wish

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• Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it in a play, a sort of sci-fi play about morality in a virtual reality universe. Nothing to do with the book precisely, but it was a great play.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Book, Dark, Reality

  "Donald Trump May Be on Your Television, But Here’s What America Really Looks Like". Interview With Mark Murrmann, www.motherjones.com. February 25, 2017.

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• Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

  Steve Almond

  Capitalism, Profitability

  Source: therumpus.net

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• According to "matter-ism," matter is all that exists. The only things that are real are physical things in motion governed by natural law. That story starts, "In the beginning were the particles," or, as one famous person put it, "The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be." No God. No souls. No Heaven or Hell. No miracles. No transcendent morality. Just molecules in motion following the patterns of natural law. This is the story that most atheists, most "skeptics," most humanists, and most Marxists believe is true.

  Greg Koukl

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be in the first place. Everything is just matter in motion and that's that. In Mind-ism (monism) there's a different route to the same problem. There cannot be a problem of evil, even in principle, since in Mind-ism even morality is maya; illusion. In neither story, then (if we're to be consistent with their principles), can the issue of evil be raised. But in real life the problem comes up all the time. That's the difficulty.

  Greg Koukl

  Real, Issues, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of personal morality than some of our previous political leaders. What would I personally like to see? I would like to see this government go straight to hell. And I would have liked to have seen the previous government go straight to hell.

  Amos Oz

  Men, Thinking, Envy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest display of public morality in the world - you know, I mean, before the war happened. Before the war happened, everybody knew that they were being fed lies.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Lying, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is not a single person in the media today that could wear Dr. Benjamin Carson's uniform, whatever uniform he puts on in a day, a business suit, if it's surgical scrubs, there's not a single member of the media that could do anything close to what Ben Carson has done with his life. But he gets - and he's not the only one - ripped to shreds, denigrated, destroyed, and for what? He holds to traditional values. He believes in morality. He is just a decent guy and he ends up a target for destruction. And he's not the only one.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Media, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.

  Arundhati Roy

  Latin, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Korea

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Finals, Sometimes

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Differences, People

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• The ratings system is so bogus and people know it. Fewer and fewer people care. The ratings board has sort of exposed itself. But my problem is, as a parent, there's this area of film that my daughters want to see. They're not my kind of films, I don't want to go see them, but I really want to know whether my daughters can see them or not. The morality of what the ratings board is doing now escapes me. I don't get it.

  William H. Macy

  Daughter, People, Parent

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The result is folk religion rather than classical, historical Christianity which has always included sound theology.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Feelings, Historical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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