Moral Quotes

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

Sincerity is moral truth.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

Life is moral responsibility.

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or anyone can lay down that will tell you what your dharma is.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Democracy needs a moral compass.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.