Moral Quotes

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

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

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

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.

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 main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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.

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

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.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

I consider myself a relatively moral guy

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!