Moral Quotes

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.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

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.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

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.

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.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

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

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

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.