Moral Quotes

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.

In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people.

And where does she find them?

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.