Moral Quotes
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.
Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.
Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.
Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.
