Moral Quotes

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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!

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

First the grub, then the morals.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.