Moral Quotes
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.
Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.
If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.
I was recently told by a guy friend that red lipstick during the summer is distracting, and I said, "You need to shut up because I love red lips in the summer." Guys are stupid, moral of the story.
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.
It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.
Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.