Moral Quotes

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.

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...