Best 1423 quotes in «moral quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, Could we really make it live as art? There was an almost moral dimension.

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.'

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!