Moral Quotes

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

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.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up.

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.