Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.

Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

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

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural cycle; we're in a similar time of upheaval now in the sense that the nation is divided upon itself, and some of the present schisms appear both terrifying and permanent. It's true that unless we learn from the past, we're condemned to repeat it.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

- Adiós -dijo el zorro-. He aquí mi secreto, que no puede ser más simple: sólo con el corazón se puede ver bien; lo esencial es invisible para los ojos.

[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!

A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The gossip died in the fire they started, longing for warmth they could not find or keep when they did. And no one spread the word, about the gossips' death.

A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.

All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive work—and that which is its source—as the standard of their moral values, they will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost..

Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes the hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.

A música afeta as nossas emoções e pode levantar-nos ou baixar-nos o moral. Um bom exemplo disto é a forma como as bandas sonoras dos filmes nos dão pistas sobre como reagirmos à cena que estamos a ver – romance, humor e tensão são ampliados pela música que os acompanha.