Moral Quotes

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death.

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

I think that Paul Ryan could be a great leader for our country. But I think that he is in a moral choice moment, and so far, he's choosing wrong Donald Trump.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Clickbait is the worst. That's my big moral highground, when I don't click on clickbait.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

I'll never go against my morals.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.