Moral Quotes

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

My morals are important to me.

We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.