Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

The only perfect climate is bed.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.

The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated in violence and a culture of cruelty. Needless to say, all of these forces intensified the increasing militarization and corporatization of higher education, along with the privatizing of everyday life.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

There aren't any moral victories.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.