Moral Quotes

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

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.

States are not moral agents.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

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

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

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.

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

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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?

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

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)

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

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

The early worm deserves the bird.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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?

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

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

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.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.