Moral Quotes

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.

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.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

If you hate me it is because I have morals.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.