Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently resolved in terms of what allowed it to be manipulated. The will must have done something to surrender to the presence of the demon. You have to resurrect the moral authority of the person's will.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a role that seemed perfect for him. I like the idea of him as one of the few moral centres of the Wire show.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that—I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.