Moral Quotes

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

What can laws do without morals?

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

In logic, there are no morals.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.