Moral Quotes
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.
Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.
What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.
You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.
If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.
The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.
I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?
Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.
Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
It's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important.
It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.
One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?
The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.
In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
