Moral Quotes

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!

My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...