Moralism Quotes (page 5)

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• courage
• consistency
• choices

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Leon Blum

• spiritual
• commitment
• search

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning. Mitt Romney

• happy
• may
• make

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant

• brain
• brainly
• brains

Morality is the weakness of the brain. Arthur Rimbaud

• animal
• evening
• animated

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. Herbert Read

• morality
• moral
• morale

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. Friedrich Nietzsche

• brave
• excellence
• result

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. Aristotle

• friendship
• science
• justice

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas

• luxury
• costly
• costs

Morality is a private and costly luxury. Henry B. Adams

• good
• confidence
• good leader

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable. John Abizaid

• value
• men
• giving

The precept: “Judge not, that ye be not judged” . . . is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and... Ayn Rand

• mystic
• choices
• different

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that... Ayn Rand

• true
• believe
• evening

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs... Orson Scott Card

• journey
• bad
• humanity

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible because if we are all “on our own journey,” then there is nothing to say to the racist, sexist, anti-semite, homophobe, etc. If we say that those forms of discrimination are morally bad, but, with respect to animals, we are all “on our own journey” and we... Gary L. Francione

• commitment
• manly
• value

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective... Fulton J. Sheen