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moral sense
1. had a strong moral sense of what was right and wrong –
2. Her Virtue is her strong Moral Sense, her Vice Vanity
3. We have formed your society in a particular way in the hope that you will rediscover the moral sense most of us have lost
4. Energy and focus on the sublime ourselves, which still have time to care about what others say, burnish, with moral sense to purify their negative emotions and morbid psychology
5. Third, there is a moral sense of a story – discerning a meaning which concerns the conduct of the practitioner
6. Finally, as Tibetan monk and former molecular biologist Matthieu Ricard has said: "This process [of releasing old tension] can be called purification, not so much in the moral sense, but in a practical one, rather like the elimination of pollution" [emphasis mine]
7. The mistake is usually referred to in the moral sense of having done something wrong due to ignorance or poor judgment
8. But this Great God has conferred a moral sense even on many inferior people
9. MORAL SENSE - IN THE WORK OF HENRY
10. moral sense, but they put themselves on a level with wood and
11. moral sense of the legend of Noah is that humanity has a chance for salvation from
12. The whole thing made no moral sense
13. For her moral sense and humanity
14. So long as Christ Himself is thought of only as a creature, however dignified, no explanation of the Atonement can be given, as au expiation, which does not shock the moral sense, and necessitate sooner or later the abandonment of the expiatory idea
15. It is now necessary to consider an argument which exerts more influence than perhaps any other in supporting what are called the secondary senses of death and destruction, and with them the doctrine of eternal misery; I mean that which is derived from certain supposed exclusively moral senses of these terms in the New Testament
16. The law of Moses was the law of God: and therefore the real comparison to be made is between the guilt of despising the Divine Law and the Divine Gospel: and while, on the one hand, it is evident that the punishment for rejecting the gospel of the Son of God will be much more severe than that for despising His law; yet since, on the other hand, the penalty of God's law was a literal, though terrible death, it seems to confound all moral sense of proportion to pronounce that the penalty for rejecting the offer of mercy should be infinitely more tremendous than that, being, in fact, to suffer through endless duration the torment of 'fire
17. A vigorous application of the moral sense to some well-established dogmas usually ends in unbelief, unless the inquirer is happy enough to find a spiritual clue to guide him out of the labyrinth of his difficulties
18. Even in a man utterly devoid of moral sense there remains an appreciation of rascality which, being conventional, is perfectly clear
19. The colonel's want of moral sense was of a profound and innocent character
20. By degrees he was inclined to believe that she had faintly attempted, at least, what she said she had done; and his horror at her impulse was mixed with amazement at the strength of her affection for himself, and at the strangeness of its quality, which had apparently extinguished her moral sense altogether
21. The moral sense in mortals is the duty We have to pay on mortal of beauty 21
22. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well
23. It was strange! He seemed afraid of jeers, in spite of the fact that he was almost getting his living by being a buffoon for all the world, and exposed himself to every buffet in a moral sense and even in a physical one, judging from the company he was in
24. 9) Women are deprived of a moral sense for a motor
25. The Tula train and the behavior of the persons composing it—How men can behave as these do—The reasons are neither ignorance, nor cruelty, nor cowardice, nor lack of comprehension or of moral sense—They do these things because they think them necessary to maintain the existing system, to support which they believe to be every man's duty—On what the belief of the necessity and immutability of the existing order of things is founded—For the upper classes it is based on the advantages it affords them—But what compels men of the lower classes to believe in the immutability of this system, when they derive no advantage from it, and maintain it with acts contrary to their conscience?—The reason lies in the deceit practised by the upper classes upon the lower in regard to the necessity of the existing order, and the legitimacy of acts of violence for its maintenance—General deception—Special deception—The conscription
26. As for governments, they will always exceed this limit,—first, because for a government there exists no moral sense of justice; and secondly, because, as everyone knows, every government is always in the greatest want of money, through wars and the necessity of giving gratuities to their allies
27. He brings before us all the cruelty of the inconsistency between men's moral sense and their actions, but without trying to remove it; seems to admit that this inconsistency must exist and that it is the poetic tragedy of life
28. The Elements that Made up the Force Sent to Toula, and the Conduct of the Men Composing it—How these Men Could Carry Out such Acts—The Explanation is Not to be Found in Ignorance, Conviction, Cruelty, Heartlessness, or Want of Moral Sense—They do these Things Because they are Necessary to Support the Existing Order, which they Consider it Every Man's Duty to Support—The Basis of this Conviction that the Existing Order is Necessary and Inevitable—In the Upper Classes this Conviction is Based on the Advantages of the Existing Order for Themselves—But what Forces Men of the Lower Classes to Believe in the Immutability of the Existing Order, from which they Derive no Advantage, and which they Aid in Maintaining, Facts Contrary to their Conscience?—This is the Result of the Lower Classes being Deluded by the Upper, Both as to the Inevitability of the Existing Order and the Lawfulness of the Acts of Violence Needed to Maintain it—Deception in General—Special Form of Deception in Regard to Military Service—Conscription
29. How can Men Allow that Murder is Permissible while they Preach Principles of Morality, and How can they Allow of the Existence in their Midst of a Military Organization of Physical Force which is a Constant Menace to Public Security?—It is only Allowed by the Upper Classes, who Profit by this Organization, Because their Privileges are Maintained by it—The Upper Classes Allow it, and the Lower Classes Carry it into Effect in Spite of their Consciousness of the Immorality of the Deeds of Violence, the More Readily Because Through the Arrangements of the Government the Moral Responsibility for such Deeds is Divided among a Great Number of Participants in it, and Everyone Throws the Responsibility on Someone Else—Moreover, the Sense of Moral Responsibility is Lost through the Delusion of Inequality, and the Consequent Intoxication of Power on the Part of Superiors, and Servility on the Part of Inferiors—The Condition of these Men, Acting against the Dictates of their Conscience, is Like that of Hypnotized Subjects Acting by Suggestion—The Difference between this Obedience to Government Suggestion, and Obedience to Public Opinion, and to the Guidance of Men of a Higher Moral Sense—The Existing Order of Society, which is the Result of an Extinct Public Opinion and is Inconsistent with the Already Existing Public Opinion of the Future, is only Maintained by the Stupefaction of the Conscience, Produced Spontaneously by Self-interest in the Upper Classes and Through Hypnotizing in the Lower Classes—The Conscience or the Common Sense of such Men may Awaken, and there are Examples of its Sudden Awakening, so that one can Never be Sure of the Deeds of Violence they are Prepared for—It Depends Entirely on the Point which the Sense of the Unlawfulness of Acts of Violence has Reached, and this Sense may Spontaneously Awaken in Men, or may be Reawakened by the Influence of Men of more Conscience
30. Besides the fact that men get rid of the sense of responsibility for their actions in this way, they lose their moral sense of responsibility also, by the fact that in forming themselves into a state organization they persuade themselves and each other so continually, and so indefatigably, that they are not all equal, but "as the stars apart," that they come to believe it genuinely themselves
31. I always suspected that this intrigue was not without an object and that in all this old-womanish gossip there must be something, and I said as much to Krestyan Ivanovitch, telling him they’d sworn to cut a man’s throat — in a moral sense, of course — and they pounced upon Karolina Ivanovna
32. In truth, powerful—yet, as to any foreign effect, imbecile—rich, in the goods of fortune, yet wanting that inherent spirit without which a nation is poor indeed; their strength exhausted by struggles for local power; their moral sense debased by low intrigues for personal popularity, or temporary pre-eminence; all their thoughts turned not to the safety of the State, but to the elevation of a chieftain
33. I believe this sentiment is entertained, without distinction of parties, by almost all the moral sense, and nine-tenths of the intelligence, of the whole northern section of the United States
34. Perhaps in the course of the remarks which I may feel myself called upon to make, said he, gentlemen may apprehend that they assume too harsh an aspect; I have only now to say that I shall speak of parties, measures, and things, as they strike my moral sense, protesting against the imputation of any intention on my part to wound the feelings of any gentleman
35. Our Government was made to secure the happiness of the people, and every thing which even remotely is calculated to impair their moral sense, will have an effect upon their situation
36. I fear they have sometimes substituted an erring reason for a better guide—the great uncontaminated current of public feeling—the moral sense of the nation, of which the honorable gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr
37. A grand part of the good done by the American Missionary Association has been in its influence, first on the conscience of the churches, and then, through this, on the moral sense and the moral sentiments of the nation itself
