Moral Quotes

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

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.

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

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

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.

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.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self­ respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.