Moral Quotes

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a subl...

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't thi...

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civil...

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing somethin...

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just ...

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importan...

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove...

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark o...

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided...

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restri...

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention bu...

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its ...

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a...

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individual...

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, c...

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that ma...

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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of...

And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you n...

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt agai...

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of c...

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical...

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, yo...

With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines ...

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to ...

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, ...

Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of...

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ...

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, an...

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likel...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around hi...

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

Yes, and words are not deeds, Solanka allowed, moving off fretfully. Though words can become deeds. ...

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to ...

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every...

Intelligence is a moral category.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by...

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who...

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path ...

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's mora...

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If yo...

Intelligence is not a moral category.

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters ...

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the...

The existence of strict moral principles has invariablysignified that the biological, and specifical...

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to...

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing ...

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain...

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the ps...

I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to m...

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the s...

It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive...

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, pr...

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they ...

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

They say that it’s hard for men to agree. You’d be surprised how easy it is—when both parties hold a...

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is n...

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr...

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists po...

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for ex...

It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the W...

The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance ...

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced ba...

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him...

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to s...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving...

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.