Moral Quotes

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Money has no moral opinions.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real meaning, and we will not be free again until we get it back.

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.