Moral Conflict Quotes

#1. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Howard Zinn

#3. That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#4. Struggle is in my heart all week. My own moral conflict never ceases. Knowing I cannot and must not simply submit to the standards imposed on me, and merely conform as "they" would like. This I am convinced is wrong - but the pressure never ceases.

Thomas Merton

#5. It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

John Bartholomew Gough

#6. What was happening to him? - he wondered. The impossible conflict of feeling reluctance to do that which was right - wasn't it the basic formula of moral corruption? To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference.

Ayn Rand

#7. Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

Angelina Jolie

#9. If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.

J. Budziszewski

#10. I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

Barry Eisler

#11. [Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

Arundhati Roy

#12. This is why the conflict between rationalism and irrationalism has become the most important intellectual, and perhaps even moral, issue of our time.

Karl R. Popper

#13. Write it down in your own handwriting.

Eugene Ormandy

#14. A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Steve Hackett

#16. The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

Jesse Jackson

#18. Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. When human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

Chris Hedges

#20. We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Henry Ford

#21. The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

Karl Popper

#22. It is an ancient view that truth, goodness, and beauty cannot, in the end, conflict. Maybe the degeneration of beauty into kitsch comes precisely from the postmodern loss of truthfulness, and with it the loss of moral direction.

Roger Scruton

#23. Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

Hannah More

#24. God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

John Bevere

#25. When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

Matthew Scully

#26. The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral choices.

Oswald Chambers

#27. People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

Noam Chomsky

#28. Here is the rule of thumb: if you aren't giving anything up, it isn't moral and it isn't courage. Stumbles, sacrifices, inner struggle, false starts and wrong turns, conflict with parents and peers-these are some of the signs of the genuine article The way you know it's real is if it hurts.

William Deresiewicz

#29. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors

Abraham Lincoln

#30. The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

David Burnett

#31. Amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

Kalle Lasn