Moral Quotes

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.