Top 43 Moral Decision Quotes

#1. Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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#2. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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#3. Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Miguel Syjuco

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#4. Satan might not be a personalized agent, but I do believe there are moral forces that transcend individuals, forces that have a real causal effect on moral decision-making.

Richard Beck

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#5. There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

J.G. Ballard

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#6. Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

Frans De Waal

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#7. A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Salman Rushdie

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#8. The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Brandon Sanderson

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#9. What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

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#10. PROVERB: Eating meat is a difficult moral decision, because it's stolen, that meat. You should apologize.

Joseph Fink

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#11. Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#12. Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

Jimmy Carter

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#13. Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.

Billy Graham

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#14. A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

Jonathan Glover

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#15. Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

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#16. Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

Linda Fisher Thornton

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#17. 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

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#18. Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
in moral truth and accountability they are.

Peter Drucker

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#19. The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

John Shelby Spong

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#20. Ugh - moral choice: couch or bed, couch or bed? The decision was taken out of my hands as Noah hooked a finger on my back belt loop and tugged me, backward, toward the bed. His arms snaked around my waist and pulled me down alongside him.

Katie McGarry

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#21. President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.

David Ignatius

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#22. Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

Thomas Szasz

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#23. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Elton Trueblood

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#24. The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Fulton J. Sheen

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#25. Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.

Andy Stanley

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#26. As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#27. What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

Henry David Thoreau

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#28. What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual convictions?' My

Susan Howatch

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#29. Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Basil Hume

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#30. I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should you. In fact, that's the point. I believe that a young woman's decision to have sex, or not, shouldn't impact how she's seen as a moral actor.

Jessica Valenti

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#31. Rationality plays a crucial role in decision making, but without the moral compass of emotions and the steady guide of empathy we would just be cold psychopaths.

Nikolaos Dimitriadis

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#32. In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

Bobby Scott

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#33. But Quebec is an illuminating example of the truth that a decision is produced even more by the mental and moral dislocation of the command than by the physical dislocation of its forces.

B.H. Liddell Hart

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#34. Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

Jimmy Carter

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#35. What I've learned is that the muses' decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose - they will sing or not, regardless.

John Barth

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#36. Gray, that moral murkiness where any decision might hold sway.

Karen Azinger

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#37. Eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

Gary L. Francione

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#38. It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

Blaise Pascal

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#39. Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon."
"They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian."
"No, they eat meat. It just doesn't sway their decision making process."
"Well that ... that's just wrong, Atticus!Are they Monsters? It's like they have no moral center!

Kevin Hearne

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#40. Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

Andy Stanley

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#41. Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn't assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they're largely the consequence of the mind's attempt to make a rational decision.

Paul Bloom

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#42. To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Simone De Beauvoir

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#43. We need to see abortion as an urgent practical decision that is just as moral as the decision to have a child - indeed, sometimes more moral.

Katha Pollitt

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