Moral Quotes

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

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

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

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.

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.

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.