Moral Quotes

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

War makes its own morals.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

I think optimism is a moral imperative.

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.