Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

The measure  of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going to be wrong. There is never any money to be made in the obvious conclusions.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.