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A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

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.

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.

Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.