Moral Quotes

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

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

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

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

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.

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.