Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in the Judeo-Christian tradition. I think that is roughly, not unerringly, the outline of what I would call natural law.There must be some moral values underlying any civilization; that's my guide.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

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.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The problem is that that line has gotten blurred and that our moral standard seems to be "if everybody else is doing it, it's okay". That's not good enough for me.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

Cowards can never be moral.

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

Custom alone regulates morals.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Democracy needs a moral compass.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. And so the left goes hysterical.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.