Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.

The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and his moral vigor. The society is made of individuals. What is true for an individual is also true for the society. A society that is not founded on moral values is doomed to fall.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'