Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this. ... I have no moral obligation to submit to the justice of my enemies. I have therefore chosen the manner of death of the great Hannibal.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

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

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

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?

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.

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'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.

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.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

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

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

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

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 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.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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

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

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

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

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

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

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

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