Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

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.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

If you hate me it is because I have morals.

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver.  You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

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

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.