Moral Quotes

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.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam o...

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and ...

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit...

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the rig...

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward...

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner f...

While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect a...

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: ...

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part...

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do ...

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience...

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fideli...

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance ...

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a lo...

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope fo...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and en...

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wr...

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a s...

Sincerity is moral truth.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and huma...

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individua...

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. ...

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and c...

The philosophers make still another objection: "What you gain in rigour," they say, "you lose in obj...

Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it o...

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I w...

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact t...

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 ...