Moral Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.

Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.