Top 47 Moral Judgment Quotes
#1. One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.
Ayn Rand
#2. Don't place some vague moral judgment on yourself based on what others might think.
E.L. James
#3. The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.
Francis George
#4. One of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that "fat" in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#5. To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
H.L. Mencken
#6. The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
Woodrow Wilson
#7. Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
Milan Kundera
#8. It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
Jacki Weaver
#9. I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#10. The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.
William A. Dembski
#11. She had not thought of them as "fat," though. She had thought of them as "big," because one of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that "fat" in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgment like "stupid" or "bastard," and not a mere description like "short" or "tall.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#12. Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?
Charles Lindbergh
#13. Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.
Walter Lippmann
#15. A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#16. A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
George Eliot
#17. Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
Moses Finley
#19. I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
Hari Kunzru
#20. Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.
John Shelby Spong
#21. There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.
David Souter
#22. I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
Jonathan Haidt
#23. The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.
George Friedman
#24. The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community.
Agatha Christie
#25. We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons why we ourselves came to a judgment; we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgment.
Jonathan Haidt
#26. The long history of this idea before Kant made it the basis of his Critique of Judgment shows that the concept of taste was originally more a moral than an aesthetic idea.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#27. Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.
Kenan Malik
#28. Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#29. A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.
Duop Chak Wuol
#30. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
John Stuart Mill
#31. As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.
Tim Irwin
#32. ...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.
G.E. Moore
#33. I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?
Ellen Goodman
#34. No man can entirely separate himself in his moral life from his fellows. No matter how vigorous his individuality, he can never escape the consciousness of their standard and their judgment, and he must be swayed by it more or less, even though he denies it for awhile to himself. "Such
Richard Dallas
#35. One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices.
Ayn Rand
#36. A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.
Barbara Branden
#37. Conscience is an instinct to pass judgment upon ourselves in accordance with moral laws.
Immanuel Kant
#38. I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.
Paul Bloom
#39. The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#40. There is an obvious disconnect between someone's claim to be relativist and his own moral judgments, including his judgment that people ought to be relativist.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#41. Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.
Anais Nin
#42. There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.
Sandra Bernhard
#43. People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#44. Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.
Deepak Chopra
#45. Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
Octavio Paz
#46. I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
Federico Fellini
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