Moral Quotes

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny