Moral Quotes

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

(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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

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

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

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.

Patience is moral elasticity.

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.

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

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

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

America desperately needs a moral rebirth. We need to implore God's blessings on our country and ask Him to forgive our sinfulness and restore our moral perspective.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.