Moral Quotes

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

No moral value is greater than humanity.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.