Moral Quotes

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

My morals went when the president got oral.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

I think I am a moral man.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow.

Man is a moral being.

Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.