Moral Quotes

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

The worst government is the most moral.

For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious. And I don't see any indication that being religious makes you more moral.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that it be a normal state. Just like everyone else.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.