Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book you borrowed, that implies, roughly, that your doing so depends on your wanting to do so: if you want to bring me the book, you will. This is not the case if you are stuck at some airport due to a snowstorm, far away from me. This, however, is not the same as "ought" implying a metaphysical "can".

Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement.  So it is with morals and patriotism.

En ge  ne  ral, plus un peuple est civilise  , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe  tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.