Moral Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Photons have neither morals nor visas.

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.