Moral Quotes

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

A great social reformer.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.

I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.