Moral Quotes
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy.
Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler
