Moral Quotes

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

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

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

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.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.