Moral Quotes

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

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

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

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

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.

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

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

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

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

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.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

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

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

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

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Does truth have a moral?