Charles Barkley

Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's up to us to take care of kids - that's part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, 'There's two groups we should take care of - old people and young people.

American Baseball Player

Brad Pitt

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

Actor

J. K. Rowling

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

English Author

Ronald Reagan

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

American President

Mahatma Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Indian Leader

Henry Miller

If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.

American Author

Ice Cube

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

American Musician

Josh Billings

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

American Comedian

Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

American Writer

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Often used when discussing ethics, society, and community values.

Social Context

Reflects personal commitment to societal norms of right and wrong.

Personal Integrity

Common in fables or children's tales, emphasizing a didactic purpose.

Storytelling Device

The moral may be implied and require interpretation or reflection.

Not Always Explicit

Highlights a conflict between choices, often with no easy answer.

Conflict Highlight

Used to explore a character's values and decisions in literature.

Character Examination

Understand morals can vary widely between different cultures.

Cultural Variance

One person's morals might differ from another's; there's often no absolute.

Subjective Interpretation

 And I think of this as kind of a moral landscape, with peaks and valleys that correspond to differences in the well-being of conscious creatures, both personal and collective. And one thing to notice is that perhaps there are states of human well-being that we rarely access, that few people access.

Science can answer moral...

 their outcomes may be determined months or years in advance by programmers or policy makers. And they'll have some difficult decisions to make. It's tempting to offer up general decision-making principles, like minimize harm, but even that quickly leads to morally murky decisions. For example,

The ethical dilemma of...

 It's popular because it forces us to think about how to choose when there are no good choices. Do we pick the action with the best outcome or stick to a moral code that prohibits causing someone's death? In one survey, about 90% of respondents said that it's okay to flip the switch,

Would you sacrifice one...

 holds that lying is always immoral, regardless of the circumstances. In other words, there’s a moral rule which forbids lying, and that rule is absolute. You might think, though, that this stance overstates the moral importance of lying.

Ethical dilemma: Would...

 beyond the grave and you know and I'm trying to get yourself right finding out about other other other ways of looking at this world other than the you know the material then the moral you know and so therefore when you look at it like

A message of peace, hope...

 suggested that numbers were the building blocks of the Universe and part of this belief was that everything from cosmology and metaphysics to music and morals followed eternal rules describable as ratios of numbers.

Making sense of...

 and by education in ritual, literature, and history. A person cultivated in this way works to help others, guiding them by moral inspiration rather than brute force. To put his philosophy into practice,

Who was Confucius? -...

 the animal stays safe so we're really motivated to minimize our impact both because it helps the data that we collect be more accurate eight-point-five and also because we have a moral responsibility

Seal Pups: Ferociously...

 all like this job being her play well this is the fun stuff today yeah Alicia and her colleagues have a moral dilemma a life in captivity is not ideal for Myesha but reintroducing her to the wild is

Baby Mountain Gorilla PIPE...

 okay this is a bit of a problem because if our goal is to understand the world to seek a deeper understanding of the world our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder

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