Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

We have stagnant wages in America. We have stagnant, even declining net worth in this country. That's part of something that's much larger than any single individual. And that is something that is way above my pay grade, to be able to deal with, but it's something I deal with on a daily basis. All my life, from the time that I was very small, my feeling was always, that there's a moral dimension to life. And it's not the moralistic dimension to life, that we often hear about, that's rather church-y or whatever.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern; to make this consideration depend on beneficial consequences for human beings is to accept the implication that the interests of animals do not warrant consideration for their own sakes.

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

What can laws do without morals?

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are sort of tied. The Italians - I don't know where it stops. No nation can claim "We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are." Because it's going on everywhere.

What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

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

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

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.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.

When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

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

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

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.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.