Moral Quotes
Moral Quote of the day
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.