Moral Quotes

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

States are not moral agents.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."