Moral Quotes

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Moral: It all depends.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Patience is moral elasticity.

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.