Moral Quotes

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

There's nothing good, there's nothing moral about taking money from people who earn it.

Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.