Moral Order

Moral order may refer to :

  • Moral order is the name given to the conservative and monarchic French government of Patrice de Mac-Mahon in the late 19th century.
  • Moral order is the name given to Immanuel Kant's rendering of the metaphysical argument from morality.

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or order:

    On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson (b. 1907)