Moral Quotes

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

You can't slice up morals.

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.