Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise.

Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed at undermining what have been traditionally defined as right and wrong and moral and immoral, that's been turned upside down, and it's not changing. Yet.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

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

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

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

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

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